Plague-Themed Cocktails, featuring David Kedson [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #189]
Introduction Looking to make plague-themed cocktails for your Passover seder, or even pre-seder enjoyment? A new book out by David Kedson provides not only recipes for making plague-themed cocktails for your Passover seder, but also tips, tricks, and advice for making them happen, he shares some of this with us on the 189th episode of The […]
Star-K Issues Clarification Regarding El Tequileño’s Kosher-for-Passover Products
Having recently shared the news that Star-K has certified 11 El Tequileño products as kosher-for-Passover, I received a lot of questions from people asking questions as to these products, including the most popular question: Does the bottle need to say that the products were kosher-for-Passover? When I reached out to Star-K, the response I received […]
List of Kosher for Passover Agave Spirits 2026 (Tequilas, Mezcals, & Sotols)
Once again, Supervisores en Calidad Kosher has released an updated guide of kosher-for-Passover-certified tequilas, mezcals, and sotols. This guide, which comes as part of a letter, notes: “As in years prior, the Kashrus team of the Kehile Ashkenazi de México have done a comprehensive review of the tequila companies under KA certification to evaluate the […]
Nearly a Dozen El Tequileño Products Have Now Been Certified Kosher-for-Passover
El Tequileño, a producer of tequilas, has recently had several of its products become certified as kosher-for-Passover. There has been a growing list of agave spirits in recent years that have been certified as kosher-for-Passover (for instance, see the 2025 list), so adding more to this list is an exciting piece of news for kosher-concerned […]
List of Kosher For Passover Tequilas 2025
Once again, Supervisores en Calidad Kosher has released its 2025 guide for Passover products, which includes – of interest for readers of this website – tequilas, mezcals, and sotols. They do note on the second page that “hay numerosos productos con certificaciones de agencias reconocidas, especialmente aquellos importados de Israel o EE.UU., que no han […]
Lovatelli’s New Vermouths at KFWE 2025 [Video]
Similar to speaking with Jonathan Hajdu, who created a new kosher-certified vermouth for the US market, at Royal Wine’s Kosher Food & Wine Experience (KFWE) last year about his vermouth, I had the pleasure of not only trying both of Lovatelli’s new kosher-certified vermouths this week at this year’s KFWE, but also speaking with the […]
List of Kosher For Passover Tequilas 2024
{Please note that this list is for 2024 (for the 2025 list, see here)} The Greater Phoenix Va’ad HaKashruth has released its annual list of kosher for Passover tequilas (see p. 7), noting that these are silver/blanco-only tequilas, silver/blanco mezcals, and sotols, “even when KFP status is not indicated on the bottle”. This list is organized by manufacturer […]
Creating Barrel-Aged Kosher-for-Passover Products [Video Clip]
In this clip from the 147th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, Ami & Larissa Nahari of The River Wine discuss the creation of their first-to-market certified kosher-for-Passover products of both Anoche reposado tequila and Ethan’s Reserve sorghum whiskey:
Preparing for Passover Begins Now
Last month, during the course of Passover, a couple of buddies and I were reflecting upon kosher for Passover liquors, both those that others held, as well as our own modest collections. While we had modest arrays of options for consuming for the duration of the holiday, we realized preparing for Passover begins now. While […]
List of Kosher For Passover Tequilas 2023
{Please note that this list is for 2023 (for the 2024 list, see here)} The Greater Phoenix Va’ad HaKashruth has released its annual list of kosher for Passover tequilas, noting that these are silver/blanco-only tequilas, silver/blanco mezcals, and sotols, “even when KFP status is not indicated on the bottle”. This list is organized by manufacturer and comes to […]