Welcome! I’m Winston, Señor Rio’s keenest history buff. I’ve been a devoted scholar on the lineage and development of societies. These...

Occurrences of various animals getting drunk from fermented fruit are well documented and often pretty hilarious. Birds, bees, bats,...

The ancestral beverage of Mexico, Pulque, was the progenitor of tequila and its origins date back to the Mesoamerican culture. It is a...

If you’re reading this, I assume you have at least a passing familiarity with spirits of various kinds. You may be open minded on what...

The first thing to know about oak is that not all oaks are the same. The quercus genus refers to white oak and tradition dictates that...

One thing not yet mentioned is in what type of oak is tequila, and by extension Señor Rio, aged? Most tequila uses American oak from...

Welcome to Persia in the year 830. By the flickering, undulating light of a flame burning in an oil lamp a man pauses, the feathers of...

Now we have a society that’s stable, where people live their lives happily and with a decent amount of freedom. This, of course, cannot...

When the three ships procured by Christopher Columbus spotted a light on the western horizon, it’s believed his heart skipped a beat. Had...