ebay late 11800 bottle of jose cuervo centenario extra-vintage

[dbolte616]

I'm just trying to figure out how much this is worth-the highest bidder gets it regardless of asking price...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-botle-of...6.c0.m14.l1318

[bn087]

Wow, 25,000.00?

I think that may be a bit much....we'll see.

[ALF_Melmac]

Is this the same bottle and cork/cap?

When did NOM's first appear?

[tvJefe]

I believe they started printing NOM on bottles in 1978. Before that it was DGN (Direccion General de Normas).* Centenario removed the Cuervo name sometime in the 1990s if I remember correctly. So I think you are looking at a bottle that is in the 20-30 year old range. Certainly not over 100 years old as you claim. It's also a mixto which makes sense for a 20 year old bottle of Centenario.

Perhaps someone with a bit more knowledge of the history of Cuervo could elaborate.

Could you tell us what research you did or your sources for believing this bottle is from the late 1800s?


*from Ian Chadwick

[Tequila Joe]

We have seen some bottles previously and one looks identical to this one and he says it is 60 years old. As for truly knowing, we would need a Cuervo expert. Here are some of the previous links on this forum:

http://www.tequila.net/tqforum/index...pic,298.0.html

I would say the bottles on this link are older (check out the Centenario):
http://www.tequila.net/tqforum/index...pic,273.0.html

[tvJefe]

Well I have e-mailed Cuervo directly so let's see what they come up with.

Joe, do you know anything more about the NOM situation? Seems like it would be a big clue if we knew the year they started printing it on labels.

[tvJefe]

[img width=427 height=640]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/jtlehman/indexphp.jpg[/img]

Now that looks like an old bottle of Centenario.

[Tequila Joe]

Originally Posted by tvJefe

Well I have e-mailed Cuervo directly so let's see what they come up with.

Joe, do you know anything more about the NOM situation? Seems like it would be a big clue if we knew the year they started printing it on labels.

I do not but they have also started talking about this on the other forum. I would tend to believe Ian because he like to do a lot of research. Not to mention 1978 was the year I was born so it is easy for me to remember. You could probably email the CRT and find out for sure tho.

[tvJefe]

Cuervo e-mailed me back saying they "forwarded my question to the appropriate department". So we'll see.