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Juan-Domingo "Dobel" Beckmann, son of Don Juan Beckmann, is the sixth-generation leader of the company. In May 2011 it was reported that Diageo Plc were in talks to buy Jose Cuervo for more the $2 billion. Diageo has the first option to buy the company because of its international distribution rights to the brand.
The Reserva de la Familia Añejo was awarded a double gold medal at the 2012 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.
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“... living in England does not free the American the way living in France frees him because the french [sic] and the American do not have the sense of going on together, from the beginning they know that there is no going on together no past present and future ...”
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“The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.”
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“A man’s memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.”
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