Last updated Tuesday, August 18, 2026. Plain terms for a site that publishes numbers about other people's products.
Our scores are our opinions, formed by tasting and disclosed here in full. They are not laboratory findings, safety assessments, or statements about whether a product complies with any regulation. If we get a fact wrong we will correct it, quickly and publicly. If you disagree with our judgement, that is a difference of opinion and we will not trade it away.
A score is the considered editorial judgement of the people who tasted the bottle, expressed as a number on a 100 point scale. It reflects preference, training and the criteria set out in our methodology, which we publish so that any reader can see the basis of the judgement and disagree with it on the merits.
A score is not a measurement. It is not a determination of product quality in any objective sense, not a finding about safety or fitness for consumption, not a statement about a producer's compliance with the Norma Oficial Mexicana or any other law or standard, and not a claim about the contents of any bottle other than the one in front of the panel.
Tequila is agricultural and batches vary. A score describes the bottling that was tasted, on the day it was tasted. It is not a promise about the bottle on your shelf.
Where we state a fact, such as a NOM number, an alcohol strength, a distillery, an owner or a price, we intend it as a fact and we will correct it if it is wrong. Where we express a view, such as that a spirit is thin, hot, exceptional or overpriced, that is opinion. We publish the reasoning and the criteria behind our opinions precisely so that they read as what they are.
Nothing on this site should be read as an assertion that a producer has done anything unlawful, dishonest or improper unless we say so plainly, name the source, and stand behind it as reporting.
The site is provided as it is. We work hard to be accurate and we correct what we get wrong, but we do not warrant that everything here is complete, current or error free. Prices, availability, ownership and production details change constantly and we may not learn of a change immediately.
We accept no payment, sponsorship, product, travel or advertising from producers, importers or distributors, and no commercial arrangement of any kind can create, change, protect or remove a score. Our conflict of interest rules and the current disclosure register are on the editorial policy page.
Brand names, bottle names and logos belong to their owners. We use them to identify the products we write about, which is what they are for. Their appearance here does not imply any endorsement of, affiliation with, or sponsorship by this publication in either direction. Photographs credit their sources and are used under the licences those sources grant.
The writing, the scores, the tasting notes and the structure of the Index are ours. Quote us, cite us and link to us freely. Do not republish a dossier or the Index wholesale, and do not present our scores as a producer's own endorsement or as an award.
Readers and brands can both raise errors. Facts get corrected. Opinions get answered, and a producer who disagrees with a score is entitled to say so and to have that on the record. How that works, and what we will and will not do, is set out in the correction and challenge policy.
This is a publication about alcohol, written for adults of legal drinking age in their jurisdiction. Nothing here is health, medical or nutritional advice.
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss arising from reliance on anything published here. Your remedy for content you consider wrong is the correction process, which we take seriously and answer.
Governing law and venue are to be set by counsel before these terms are relied on. Questions about these terms: editor@tequilawatch.com.