A Taste of Agave Spirits

This year we are featuring Ocean Flower shotglasses by local glass artist Paul Counts. Your $65 ticket includes a shotglass of your choice*, Agave Spirits tasting from Oceanside award winning Pacific Coast Spirits, appetizers, live Mariachi music and glassblowing demonstration by Paul Counts & Logan Groupe.

"Designated Driver" tickets are available $45 (includes all of the above minus the Agave Spirits tasting).

A portion of the proceeds and in gallery purchases benefits New Village Arts Theater.

Something Special: A drawing for a Paul Counts glass TEAPOT sculpture

* Please note: This is NOT a blow your own shot glass event

New Village Arts Theater: Celebrating 22 years of award-winning professional theatre and thriving education and outreach programs, New Village Arts (NVA) has truly become the cultural hub of North County San Diego.

NVA attracts more than 30,000 patrons each year to experience professional theatre, musical and art events in the heart of Carlsbad Village. In addition to full seasons of plays and musicals featuring some of the best artistic talent in Southern California, NVA hosts talkback discussions and other supplementary events designed to create conversation and cultivate community.

Pacific Coast Spirits Grain-to-glass philosophy

No shortcuts are taken in creating true grain-to-glass spirits. We use local California grains, process all steps of fermentation, distillation and aging under one roof here in San Diego.

What is Pacific Coast Spirits serving?

Agave Spirit (40% ABV)

Our Agave Spirit (aka Tequila) is made from 100% Blue Weber Agave. We source this from Jalisco, Mexico, where the Pina’s (main source of agave) are cooked in traditional ovens, juiced, packaged and shipped to our door. This quality nectar is then fermented and distilled (8 hours) to create our house Agave Spirit. Enjoy this earthy, crisp spirit as we age our Reposado and Anejo in our barrels to give you a full varietal of Agave spirits to choose from later this year. 

Tasting Notes: Crisp honey aroma with a blend of fresh cut grass and sweet apple or pear taste and lingering smooth earthy taste on the tongue 

Cocktail Recommendations: This will make any margarita amazing but we prefer it as a Paloma (grapefruit) or a Farmarita (carrot).

Agave Anejo

Our award winning Agave Anejo is a top shelf spirit that is produced from 100% Blue Weber Agave. Grown and sourced from Jalisco, Mexico. Aged for 2 years in our ex-Bourbon barrels. Born out of the same provenance as our renowned Blanco and Reposado Agave Spirit, generally known as “Tequila”. It has a deeper accent than our Reposado. For those who love to explore traditional Mexican flavors with an adventurous twist, Agave Spirit Anejo is perfect.

The agave undergoes cooking in traditional ovens before it is juiced and packaged for delivery right to our door. Next, the extracted nectar of these pina’s undergoes fermentation and distillation, resulting in an incredibly flavorful spirit sure to satisfy the palate of any tequila enthusiast.

Tasting Notes: Deep maple, caramel and wood sugar from the barrel with a toasted butterscotch taste and lingering sweet vanilla smooth finish.