The plaintiffs – Avi Pusateri, Sushi Tokyo Inc and Chaim Mishulovin – allege that Diageo North America has bought “adulterated tequila to customers” and argue that “plaintiffs paid super-premium costs for Casamigos and Don Julio tequila, however they acquired neither a premium product nor 100% Blue Weber Agave tequila. As a substitute, an investigation of Casamigos and Don Julio tequilas has proven that they consist of serious concentrations of cane or different forms of alcohol relatively than pure tequila”.
Pusateri is a resident of New York who owns and operates Jazz Age Cocktails, Mishulovin is a resident of New Jersey and Sushi Tokyo Inc is a “New York company that’s headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, the place it serves basic Japanese impressed sushi and associated meals and drinks”.
The lawsuit claims that if the plaintiffs had know the reality in regards to the components in Don Julio and Casamigos, they might not have purchased the merchandise or would have paid much less.
The lawsuit is searching for damages of greater than US$5,000,000.
The submitting cited the web site Mezcalistas which has reported that “quite a few agave farmers protested the dearth of tequila trade regulatory compliance” and claims that The Additive Free Alliance has proven that it’s doable to make use of Nuclear Magnetic resonance to “affirm if tequila has been adulterated with cane alcohol”.
The plaintiffs have demanded a jury trial for all claims asserted within the grievance.
