Though the lineage of tequila goes back to 1000 BCE, to the land of Aztecs (Mexico), where it was once popular as pulque, modern-day master distillers and crafty bartenders think they haven’t reached anywhere in exploring and chiselling out the mindblowing facets locked away inside this ancient drink. New cocktails and RTDs (ready-to-drink) based on tequila continue to emerge, throwing the market into a tizzy. (One can see the veteran whisky, nodding with its nostalgic I-have-been-thereonce smile, as tequila and its myriad avatars rage across the world, hitting every shore, blasting every impediment, drowning every myth that hangs on like barnacles around the drink).