Quote:BTW, the EU has the same rules about Feta cheese and Champagne.  Champagne can only come from Champagne, France.  Feta can only come from Greece.

 

As for Beam, it will suck as much under foreign ownership as Budweiser does.

 

Mexico has a similar law regarding tequila. To be called tequila it must be distilled from the blue agave plant and produced either in one Mexican state, or limited regions of four other states. Mescal is distilled from different agave plants. So, all tequilas are also mecals, but not all mescals are tequilas. Mexico has the international license to the word "tequila", which is recognized by the U.S.

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