Arizona-based recording artist Roger Clyne has, for the past fifteen years, created a fan-focused community that meshes music with all forms of merriment infused with southwestern culture and mythologies. To that end, he created the award-winning Mexican Moonshine line of fine tequila, which has just released its third marque, Añejo.
The buttery Añejo boasts honey and woody notes, with hints of tobacco and vanilla. It joins Mexican Moonshine’s Silver and Reposado brands, which in 2011 earned Tequila.net’s “Best of the Best” award. Last month at the Spirits of Mexico Tequila Festival in San Diego, the Añejo and Reposado both won a Gold medal and the Silver took home a Silver.
In addition to being a tequila aficionado, Roger is eco-conscious. He developed Mexican Moonshine with Fabrica de Tequilas Finos, SA de CV, a notable boutique tequila distiller in the city of Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico.The distillery uses a clean, sustainable, and progressive process that removes impurities from the waste water. The exceptional quality of the end product is reflective of how the tequila starts.
Mexican Moonshine has its own mythic creation story. Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers have been curating and hosting a music festival, Circus Mexicus, in Rocky Point, Mexico for more than a dozen years. In 2009, the first large-scale amount of Mexican Moonshine was created to be sold and enjoyed by RCPM fans at the festival. But it almost didn’t happen, until a trusted band friend did his own little cross-Mexico moonshine run to make sure the tequila made it to the event (which it did, to great relief, and success).
Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers have released six consecutive albums that have debuted in the top 10 on Billboard's Internet Sales chart, the first independent band to ever accomplish that feat. Two of those albums, 1999's Honky Tonk Union and 2004's ¡Americano!, debuted at #1. That streak of creating timeless rock music continues with RCPM's most recent studio album, Unida Cantina. In addition to Circus Mexicus (with attendees from more than 32 states and 7 countries) and their headline shows, RCPM have opened for Dierks Bentley, John Fogerty, Willie Nelson, Barenaked Ladies, Live, Blues Traveler, Sammy Hagar and Kid Rock, among others.
Clyne enjoyed an accomplished stint with The Refreshments, a late-90s rock band whose cult-classic album Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy produced the hit singles Banditos and Down Together. Clyne also wrote and performed the theme song for FOX’s animated hit, “King of The Hill.”
More information about Mexican Moonshine, including U.S. retail locations and online sales can be found at MexicanMoonshine.com.
Jeffrey Dale Starr is a tequila enthusiast, oil painter, and owner of mobile software company Purple Falcon.
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