Socorro Tequila, a brand owned by Dallas based I & A Agave Spirits, announced on September 16, 2026 the release of Blanco 110 Singular Edición, a still strength tequila bottled at 55% ABV and limited to 1,002 bottles, arriving in October.

The announcement, distributed through EIN Presswire and corroborated by trade outlet The Spirits Business, sets a suggested retail price of 47.99 dollars for a 750ml bottle, with pre-orders open now through Socorro's website and eventual distribution to select retailers in Texas and Colorado.

What is actually in the bottle

Singular Edición is bottled at 110 proof, which the company and The Spirits Business both describe as the highest ABV legally permitted for tequila. Unlike Socorro's standard Blanco, which is proofed down with water before bottling, this release is taken straight from the still: double distilled, non chill filtered, and drawn from what the company calls a single corazón, the heart cut of one distillation run, with no heads or tails blended back in. Pablo Antinori, co-founder and director of agave spirits at I & A Agave Spirits, said the edition is meant to be the closest a drinker can get to tasting the brand's Blanco directly off the still. The agave is single estate Blue Weber, grown in the highlands of Jalisco and harvested, according to the company, at peak maturity. Socorro was founded in 2020 in Arandas, Jalisco by Antinori and Josh Irving, industry veterans who had previously worked on other tequila brands before starting the label.

The transparency claim, and what backs it

The headline claim, that this release marks a landmark in tequila transparency, comes from the company itself. According to the press release, Singular Edición will ship with documentation of production details, including a harvest date and the average Brix, a measure of sugar content in the harvested agave, written by hand on materials that accompany the bottle. Brian Ashcraft, senior director of brands at I & A Agave Spirits, said the goal was to push the boundaries of transparency while pricing the release accessibly. What has not been published, and what neither the company's release nor the trade coverage of it specifies, is any third party audit of those production claims or a certifying body that reviewed them. The disclosures described are the producer's own account of its process, not an outside verification of what the finished liquid contains.

Where the Agavos Award and the ownership fit

Before its commercial release, Singular Edición received a Double Gold at the 2026 Agavos Awards, a competition launched in 2025 by the team behind the rating site Agave Matchmaker that conducts blind tastings of agave spirits. The award predates the retail launch, meaning the bottle earned recognition before consumers could buy it. Socorro sits within I & A Agave Spirits' portfolio alongside the brand's standard Blanco, Reposado and Añejo expressions. The company has framed Socorro's identity around a short ingredient list, agave, water and yeast, and around funding water access projects in Jalisco tied to the brand name, which translates from Spanish as help or aid. None of those framing choices are independently audited claims; they are the company's own description of its mission and sourcing.

What this means

The word transparency in this rollout describes what a producer chose to disclose about a single limited run, not a certification checked against a public register. Readers comparing high proof blanco releases will find several already scored in Tequila Watch's database, including Fortaleza Blanco Still Strength and Los Abuelos Blanco Still Strength, none of which carries a Verified Organic certification either. What remains to be seen is whether Socorro publishes the harvest documentation itself rather than describing it in a release.