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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (324878)	7/20/2006 9:20:37 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Agreed. I was just wondering if anyone was paying attention ... <g>

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (324878)	7/21/2006 12:53:04 PM
From: Pacing The Cage	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Here's one for you Patron: (would you mind buying a bottle for me while you're at it?) For the richest guy in Margaritaville... Fri Jul 21, 8:36 AM ET Forget about the kind of tequila you slam down on the bar or knock back at parties in throat-burning shots with salt and lemon. If you're paying six figures, you might prefer to savor it in small sips. An impossibly upmarket brand of tequila -- 100 percent blue Agave lovingly aged for six years and sold in a limited edition platinum bottle with fancy artwork on the label -- went on sale in Mexico on Thursday night for $225,000 a bottle. "Tonight we are trying for the Guinness Book of Records with the most expensive bottle in the world," Fernando Altamirano, chief executive of producer Tequila Ley .925, told a launch party for the liquor. Tequila Ley .925 has produced 66 bottles of the "Pasion Azteca" tequila, half of them pure platinum bottles and half of them gold and platinum-decorated bottles that sell for the slightly less extravagant price of $150,000. "Since we started out, we began with the idea of making the finest, most expensive bottle of tequila in the world," Altamirano told Reuters. For those on a smaller budget, there are 999 bottles of the same tequila in silver and gold bottles priced at $25,000. Showing off one of each type, Altamirano said they had already been sold to a collector, but declined to give away the buyer's identity. Altamirano, whose company has won awards for its stylish bottles, said his next goal was to create a million-dollar tequila bottle made from diamond-encrusted platinum and auction it at Sotheby's next year.