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Dieline features Tequila Laelia

The packaging design for Tequila Laelia, designed by WeHolden, merges sophistication and artistry.

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Shady Bourbon: Top Holiday Whiskey Pick 2024

Our limited edition "Shady McCoy x Bird Gang" Kentucky Bourbon Collab makes The Philadelphia Inquirer's Best Holiday Whiskey Gift List for 2024. 

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Detroit Lions launch Grit City Spirits

 "Made for Motor City" with the design and branding by Weholden, known for developing several spirits brands.

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Philadelphia Eagles get into the booze business with Bird Gang Spirits

Under the deal with BOTLD and WeHolden, the football team expects to have fun with the affiliation.

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Nixta Licor Named Best in Show Winner at NYWSC

Nixta captures 'Best In Show Liqueur' at the 2023 New York World Wine & Spirits Competition.

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Abasolo and Nixta featured in Food & Wine Innovators Issue

In a six page feature article, Food & Wine discusses how distiller Iván Saldaña Oyarzábal transforms Mexico’s native grain.

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McGregor teases British monarchy in latest whiskey advert

Irish Apple honours the true royalty of the barstool court.

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Conor McGregor Introduces Proper Irish Apple

Complete with Steve Jobs-inspired commercial starring “The Notorious.”

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Packaging Of The World features Irish Apple

WeHolden asks, "How you like 'dem apples?"

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Abasolo & Nixta both finalists for 2022 Best Spirit at Tales Of The Cocktail

Both Abasolo and Nixta were named as finalist for the 'Best Spirit Of The Year' award at Tales Of The Cocktail 2022. 

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Barleycorn Speaks! Abasolo El Whisky De Mexico is a “perfect pour.”

100/100 points for Abasolo as spirits journalists choose The Best Whiskeys Of Summer 2023.

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Enter Cigarman: Metallica’s James Hetfield And Drew Estate Create Blackened M81

One of the biggest names in heavy metal is now in the cigar business.

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Metallica Unveil ‘Rye the Lightning,' Straight Rye Named After Iconic Sophomore Release

The new rye is finished in barrels pummeled by a playlist from Metallica’s 2012 Orion Music Festival set.

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Nixta Licor wins 2021 Esquire Spirit Awards

Esquire Magazine awards our unique corn spirit the best liqueur of 2021.

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Food & Wine "Picks" Nixta Licor

F&W Picks 2021: This Corn Liqueur Will Be the Coolest Bottle on Your Bar.

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"Revolutionizing the World of Whiskey" features the Blackened x Willett collab and Abasolo Whisky

SevenFiftyDaily highlights the Blackened X Willett project and Abasolo Whisky as "2021 Innovators Bringing Dynamic New Ideas, Techniques, and Ingredients That Are Revolutionizing the World of Whiskey."

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Mexican Corn Elicits the Sweet and the Smoky Via the Abasolo Distillery

“Nixta is one of these revolutionary products where you can add a little bit to anything and it’ll make it taste great,” Sandoval said. “I’ve dubbed it the bartender salsa.”

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Blackened X Willett Rye — mission accomplished!

Metallica’s Blackened Whiskey Brand Teamed With Willett on a Rye...a fruitful collaboration. 

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Tequila On The Rock(s): Record- Breaking

In the year and a half since Dwayne Johnson launched his tequila brand, Teremana, he has learned a lot—including the best foods to pair it with.

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Expand your palate with a bottle from Mexico

Most people, when they hear the word “whisky,” think of Scotch, the vaunted brown spirit from the misty isles of Scotland that’s been around for centuries. Ireland might enter your brain too, or perhaps...

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Nixta Is a Mexican Corn Liqueur That Will Transform Your Whiskey Drinks

When we were making Nixta, we wanted to create the purest form of ancestral corn distillation that was as versatile as the grain itself,” as Cesar Sandoval, Abasolo’s National Ambassador told us...

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This is a cool centerpiece bottle

Mexico is getting in on the whisky craze. This makes a lot of sense, given that corn (bourbon whiskey’s main ingredient) is originally from Mexico. In fact, for anyone who understands that lineage, it’s downright exciting...

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The design for Nixta places at the top of the 2021 Dieline Awards

Since its founding in 2007, Dieline has celebrated the best in packaging design, raising awareness to the enormous value of both consumer product packaging design and branding…

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Conor McGregor sells majority of whiskey brand Proper No. Twelve to Proximo Spirits for $600M

Proximo Spirits, a company that owns Jose Cuervo and other alcohol brands, has acquired a majority stake in Proper No. Twelve Irish whiskey in a deal worth up to $600 million... 

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Conjuring up a world-class marketing campaign can take weeks of mental strain. Or, sometimes, two words rhyme.

To support restaurants and promote his Teremana tequila brand, Dwayne Johnson will Venmo back up to $1 million in guacamole purchases this May…

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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Will Cover Your Guac… On The Rock

For his birthday this year, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson wants everyone to get out and support restaurant owners—and his tequila brand, Teremana…

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Paying homage to an ancestral crop

The word “whiskey” is an Anglicization of uisce beatha, Gaelic for “water of life.” Say it out loud over and over again (one pronunciation is OOOSH-ga BAE-tha) and you can get… 

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Nixta — damn, if this doesn’t look cool

In most cases, we’re more concerned with the liquid inside a bottle than the bottle itself. If a whiskey, rum, tequila, gin, or vodka is high-quality, we don’t care if it comes in…

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It’s safe to say there is nothing else like it

For most of my lifetime, whisky came from Scotland or Canada and whiskey Ireland, Kentucky or Tennessee. Yes, Japan made superlative versions, but for a long time they did not…

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This year, Teremana Tequila was everywhere

This year, Teremana Tequila was everywhere. With Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s premium spirit showing up in everything from ice cream to 100th birthday parties, it’s no surprise…

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We're loving the simple-yet-effective design for Abasolo Ancestral Corn Whisky

Sometimes when a product is rooted in history, direct design is the best approach. We're loving the simple-yet-effective design for Abasolo Ancestral Corn Whisky. The parchment label…

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For Proper No. Twelve…the branding, packaging, and whiskey itself all had to be “unimpeachable”

Conor McGregor chose an opportune moment to announce his plans to launch an Irish whiskey brand. It was the night of June 14, 2017; the Irish mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter…

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Made at the first dedicated whiskey distillery in Mexico… It makes for a unique whiskey

It pours more golden than the brown you might find hitting the glass when you let loose a couple fingers of your favorite bourbon. The liquid coming from this rectangular bottle…

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This is one fun brand & bottle design

This is one fun brand & bottle design. Paying homage to the cultural importance of corn in Mexico, this liquor's bottle has the texture and color of an ear of corn. The embossed label…

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Nixta — A proudly Mexican, self-aware package

“¡Sin Maíz, No Hay País!” Without corn, there is no country. Nixta Licor de Elote is an ancestral corn liqueur from Jilotepec, Mexico—the birthplace of corn. More than just a crop…

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WeHolden Pays Homage to the Birthplace of Corn With Nixta Licor

In partnership with Casa Lumbre Spirits, WeHolden was tasked to design packaging for an ancestral corn liqueur that pays tribute to corn as the foundational element in the…

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Mexico’s First Purpose-Built Whisky Distillery

Think of Mexican spirits – the kind you drink – and of course the first thing that springs to mind is tequila. Surprisingly, the second-most popular spirit in Mexico is not mezcal, which tends…

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“Excellent.”

We appreciate tequila, have tried mezcal and are sampling sotol. Still there is more to learn about Mexican spirits. Corn whiskey, for example, is a rarity. But now there’s one that’s…

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What we’re drinking: Abasolo.

Based in Jilotepec de Abasolo, about 1.5 hours outside of Mexico City, Abasolo is part of the Destileria Y Bodega Abosolo, the first ever distillery dedicated entirely to the…

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Mexico Is Getting in on the Whiskey Game and You Should Be Excited

The Scottish Highlands, Japan and America continue to lead the pack in the whiskey market. But a new Mexican distillery is getting into whiskey production, and its inaugural…

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Highlighting our creation of the Montelobos mezcal packaging and design

Working with Casa Montelobos, William Grant & Sons, and Dr. Iván Saldana, the world’s leading agave expert, WeHolden developed the packaging design for Montelobos (Mountain of Wolves)…