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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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“History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.”
—Henry Ford (1863–1947)
“The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does “fame” become, especially of the literary sort. This species of “fame” a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“... 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 ...”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)