Comments on: Tequila Los Abuelos now available in South Bay / Cupertino area!!

By: Tara

Tara — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:35:42 +0000

I just met Guillermo Sauza at a Tequila tasting in LA and wow this tequilla rocks, lucky you got to go to the actual distillery.

By: bbum

bbum — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:27:23 +0000

I don’t know the LA area at all, but there are two stores listed as carrying this rather awesome product:

Lake Forest/Irvine
Wine Pavillion
949-206-9531

Los Angeles
Ramirez Liquors
323-855-6896

By: Bob D.

Bob D. — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:23:06 +0000

Can this be found in the Los Angeles area? Online search results are all down south.
Regards, Bob

By: Tea Leaves - SLO as in “Slow”

Tea Leaves - SLO as in “Slow” — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:02:50 +0000

[...] BevMo, of course, and also the little diamond The Coach House, in Cupertino, where one can find Tequila Los Abuelos. While at the latter facility, I stumbled across a bottle of Amaro Nonino, one of my favorite [...]

By: bbum’s weblog-o-mat » Blog Archive » crab, Crab, CRAB, CCCRRRRRAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBB!!! (and LOTS of tequila)

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:04:08 +0000

[...] Guillermo shared many bottles of Los Abuelos with us. Los Abuelos is an awesome tequila, as I have mentioned before. [...]

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:53:14 +0000

This tequila is available at multiple locations down here in San Diego. Good to see it’s getting into some more markets.

By: bbum

bbum — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:22:25 +0000

Neither. I take lots of low light, long exposure, pictures. As a result, this shot didn’t take terribly long to get right. Only a couple of tries before I figured I had a decent potential of at least one good shot.

The bottles are lit from underneath on that promotional stand and we were in the cave. So the bottle lighting was relatively easy. The challenge was one of exposure and configuring the camera correctly. As you might imagine, the camera’s auto-exposure fu is not optimized to such a situation!

For such shots, it is almost required for you to set the shutter speed and focus manually. I’ll typically also go full manual mode and adjust the Aperture, too. If I have the luxury of time, I’ll take several shots with different exposure meter, over exposing and under exposing a couple of shots just in case the camera is lying (which it’ll do).

The key trick is to use the “timed shot” mode on the camera. That way, I can hit the shutter button and step away from the scene and let the camera do its thing for the 0.5 to 5 or so seconds that the shutter will be open. If shooting this way, always remember to put your hand over, but not touching, the eyepiece of the camera to limit light pollution from coming in through that particular set of optics.

By: peterb

peterb — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:53:00 +0000

The photo of the three bottles of tequila is fantastic. How much work was it to get that shot lit correctly? Or were you just lucky?

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:11:39 +0000

Nice typo / subliminal message:

‘If you are looking to add a tequila to our bar that will blow people away, find Los Abuelos!’

:^)

By: MrAgave

MrAgave — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:29:57 +0000

Excellent photo!