ROSITA, MIGUEL AND THE BLUE AGAVE MIGUEL HAD ALWAYS BEEN IN THE SAME BUISNESS WITH HIS ABUELO (GRANDFATHER) AND THE GRAND PATRON (HIS FATHER) IN THE MAKING OF THE NECTAR OF THE GODS, ARTISAN TEQUILA. THEY SPEcIALIZED IN TEGUILA REPASADO OR TEQUILA THAT RESTS. IT IS LIKE WINE THAT AGES. THEY USED BOUBON BARRELS FROM THE HOUSE OF MAKERS MARK, THE BEST BOURBON IN THE UNITED STATES. MIGUEL GREW UP PLANTING THE BLUE AGAVE, A HOT ARDOUS JOB AND THEN WAITING FOR SO MANY YEARS FOR IT TO MATURE AND THE HAVESTING IT. HE HAD REACHED THE AGE WHERE HE RAN THE FARM AND THE DISTILLARY. HE WAS THE PATRON NOW AND HE ACTED AS ONE, HE TREATED THE HELP HONORABLY, HE ASSISTED THEM IN TIMES OF NEED, HE FURNISHED THEM WITH THE WORLD RENOWN ROSITA TEQUILA, FOR THIS TEQUILA WAS THE ONLY ONE IN HISTORY THAT HAD A ROSEY COLOR, MIGUEL HAD A SECRET HE NEVER REVEALED BUT THE TEQUILA WAS TRULY THE GODS OWN CHOICE OF DRINK. THE GODS WOULD DRINK IT AND PLAY TRICKS ON THE MORTALS, MANY OF YOU READING THIS NOW. MIGUEL HAD A PARTNER, ROSITA SHE WAS HIS PARTNER IN EVERYTHING. HIS CAMA, HIS FINCA OR FARM EVERY PLANT WAS ALSO HERS. HIS VERY HEART WAS HERS. ROSITA HAD NO FEAR OF WORK. SHE WOULD STOOP AND PLANT THE BABIES AND STOOP AND CHOP WITH A SHARP MACHETE EL MADUROS, THE ONES READY FOR THE FIRE. IT WAS A SMOOTH OPERATION BECAUSE WHEN THEY RELIED ON EACH OTHER, THERE WAS NO DOUBT OF SUCESS OF THE REQUEST. ROSITA KNEW MIGUEL COULD MIX THE RIGHT COMBINATION OF AGAVE AFTER CHARRING. MIGUEL KNEW ROSITA COULD BRING THE NECESSARY AMOUNT OF CUT AGAVE FOR THE DAY, IT WAS NOT JUST AGAVE, BUT THE BLUE AGAVE, SENT FROM QUEZALCOATAL. THEY MADE THE TEQUILA SINSERRO, THE REAL THE REPASODO. IN REPOSE. ROSITA LOVED TO PAINT THE STEPS OF THE PROCESS AND SHE WAS A MAESTRA. SHE COULD MAKE THE MEN WHO HELPED GLISTEN WITH SWEAT AND THE FIRE OF THE CHARRING KILN LOOK LIKE IT COULD BURN YOU IF YOU TOUCHED THE PAINTING. MIGUEL WAS A MASTER TASTER, HIS TONGUE WAS VERY EXPERIENCED AS ROSITA WOULD SAY. HIS FATHER AND ABULITO WOULD ALWAYS SAY, MIGUEL IF HE WAS A DRUNK, HE WOULD STILL SEEK THE FINEST OF TEQUILA, BUT HE WAS A SOBER MAN. HE HAD OTHER THINGS TO THINK ABOUT. HIS ROSITA, A GIFT FROM QUEZALCOATL, WAS IN HIS MIND EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY. AS HE WORKED LIKE 2 BURROS AND DID THE WORK OF 4 MEN HE THOUGHT OF HER AND HER LUMINOSITY. HOW SHE CARRIED LIGHT WITH HER EVERYWHERE SHE TRAVELED, AND THE MEN WOULD PUT THEIR BACK TO THE WORK WHEN SHE WALKED BY, OUT OF RESPECT AND NOT FROM BEING CABRONES. MIGUEL HAD DISCOVERED ROSITA WHEN SHE WORKED IN THE CITY AND SHE WOULD GO TO THE SYMPHONY AND MIGUEL WAS A WEAVER AND STOPPED TO MAKE THE ROSITA TEGUILA REPASADO. THE TEGUILA OR ROSITA IN REPOSE, RESTING. HE WOULD ALWAYS WANT HER TO TAKE IT EASY, CALMETE MI AMOUR, CALMETE, BUT SHE WOULD WORK BESIDE HER BELOVED MIGUEL STROKE FOR STROKE, BUT SHE ACQUIECED TO MIGUEL IN THE BLENDING OF THE TEQUILA, BUT SHE GREW THE SECRET INGREDIANT THAT NO ONE KNOWS BUT THEM AND MADE THE ROSE TEGUILA, A BEAUTIFUL, ROSE AND GOLD SHINING NECTAR WITH THE NOSE OF A HOUSE OF FLOWERS. AT NIGHT AS ROSITA WOULD MAKE THE BEANS AND RICE AND THE CHILE RELLENOS AND CHAR THE CHILES AS MIGUEL LOVED AND THE FRESH CILANTRO AND QUESO FRESCA, MIGUEL WOULD PREPARE FOR THE TABLE, HE WAS VERY PICKY AND WOULD HAVE FRESH BOUQUETS EVERY NIGHT FOR HIS ROSITA AND HE WOULD PUT A SMALL BRASS POT OVER A CANDLE WITH THE OIL OF COCONUT IN IT TO WARM, AT NIGHT HE WOULD RUB HER FEET WITH COCO, SHE WAS AFRAID OF HAVING THE FEET OF MUD AS THE ABUELOS, SHE WANTED BEAUTIFUL FEET FOR MIGUEL. THE AREA OF COMIDA SMELLED LIKE HEAVEN. HE WOULD WRITE HER SOME LINES OF LOVE EVERYDAY AND DEVOTE HIMSELF TO HER EVERY MORNING AS SHE DID. THIS WAS NO RITUAL IT WAS DIVINE AND SACRAFICIAL, THEY WOULD SAY IT OUT LOUD AS A PRAYER. HE WOULD SAY ROSITA, TODAY I DEVOTE MYSELF TO YOU AND IN ALL THAT I DO IT IS IN YOUR INTEREST THAT I ACT. I WILL USE THE MACHETE IN YOUR INTEREST, I WILL STOKE THE FIRE TO CHAR THE AGAVE IN YOUR INTEREST. ROSITA, IT IS ALL FOR YOU. ROSITA, WITH EYES BRIMMING AND GRINGOS THIS WAS EVERY DAY, SHE WOULD SAY MIGUEL, GOD HAS BROUGHT US TOGETHER FOR OUR LIVES TO SHINE AND FOR THOSE AROUND US TO SEE WHAT TRUE LOVE LOOKS LIKE AND I AM BOUND TO YOU MY MIGUEL, I AM DEVOTED TO YOU. AND EVERYDAY THIS WOULD START THEIR DAY AFTER MIGUEL WOULD GET UP ALWAYS EARLY BEFORE THE COCK CROWED AND MAKE ROSITA HER CAFE CON CREMA WITH IBARRO CHOCOLATE IN IT, SHE LOVED THIS, AND HE WOULD GET BACK IN THE BED AFTER WASHING HIS FACE AND MOUTH BECAUSE HE LOVED AND RESPECTED HER SO. HE PURIFIED HIM SELF BEFORE HE CAME BACK TO HER. THIS MY GRINGO FREINDS IS THE STORY OF THE ROSE COLORED TEQUILA AND SACRAFICIAL LOVE AND I WILL TELL YOU FOR ONE I KNOW IT IS NO STORY. TO ROSITA, WHO WILL ALWAYS BE MY LOVE. WRITTEN BY MIGUEL COPYRIGHT BY MICHAEL FORBUS