Europe
Old appellations and the houses that still treat them as obligations. We look for growers and distillers whose lots can be named — a slope, a variety, a cask — and whose paperwork can travel with the wine or the spirit.
Diego Tornado Imports LLC · Texas
The world, brought in wholesale.
We import wine and distilled spirits for the United States trade. The brief is not a single country and not a single category. It is the bottle that earns its place — from allied producers in Europe and Mexico, and from cellars and distilleries wherever the standard is met.
Texas LLCFormed in Texas. Built for the U.S. market.
TTB permitImporter of liquor and wine.
WholesaleProducers abroad, trade at home.
Mission
Best in class, not nearest at hand.
Diego Tornado Imports exists to bring the best wines and distilled spirits into the United States. Mexico and tequila are part of that map. They are not the border of it. Our passion is the longer family of fermented and distilled drinks: wine, and the spirits that begin as wine, grain, cane, fruit, or agave.
The work is wholesale importation. We hold alliances with producers in Europe and in Mexico. The goal of those alliances is practical: to carry their wines and spirits across the border, in compliance, and place them with the American trade. Selection starts at the source. A label is not a relationship. A vintage, a still, and a grower are.
The company holds an importer’s permit for liquor and wine issued by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. State authorizations govern where a product may be sold. This page is a statement of the house, not an offer to the public.
How we work
Alliances first. Then the port.
Mexico
Agave is a serious origin, not a costume. Alliances there cover tequila and the wider distilled tradition, chosen with the same test we apply in Europe: place, process, and a producer we are willing to stand behind.
The United States
The destination is the wholesale market. Imported goods move through the federal permit and the state systems that follow it. Our job is to make a foreign bottle legible, lawful, and worth a buyer’s repeat order.
The table
The executive team has spent years in this trade, and in hospitality. We have owned restaurants. That changes the buying: a wine or a spirit is judged by the glass and the service, not only by the invoice.
Fermented
Wines of the world, briefly.
Wine is fermented grape juice, and then it is a place. The same species, Vitis vinifera in most fine bottles, reads differently in limestone, clay, volcanic soil, and maritime wind. Climate decides ripeness. The cellar decides whether that ripeness is kept or covered.
Europe
- France: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, the Rhône, the Loire, Alsace.
- Italy: Piedmont, Tuscany, Veneto, Sicily, and the Adriatic side.
- Spain and Portugal: Rioja, Ribera, Jerez, Cava; Douro, Dão, Vinho Verde.
- Germany and Austria: Riesling above all, and the dry wines of the Danube.
Beyond Europe
- The United States: California, Oregon, Washington, and the older New York benches.
- South America: Chile’s coasts and valleys; Mendoza and the higher Andes.
- The southern hemisphere cellar: Australia, New Zealand, South Africa.
- Smaller fermented cousins we respect: cider, and sake, when the maker is serious.
A good wine names its grape or its place without assistance from residual sugar it did not earn. We are not collecting flags. We are collecting bottles that survive a second glass.
Distilled
Spirits of the world, briefly.
Distillation concentrates a ferment. What remains in the glass is the raw material, the cut, and the time in wood, if any. The categories below are origins, not a ranking. A house that imports only one of them is a specialist. A house that understands several of them can tell when a bottle is telling the truth.
Grain and grape
Scotch and the wider whisky of Scotland; Irish whiskey; bourbon and rye from the United States; cognac, Armagnac, and Calvados from France. Japan’s whisky belongs in the same conversation when the cask and the blend are honest. Brandy is wine, concentrated. Whisky is grain, concentrated. Both fail when the barrel is asked to do the work of the ferment.
Cane, fruit, agave
Rum from the Caribbean and Latin America, when molasses or fresh cane juice is still the subject. Gin, where the botanical bill is a recipe rather than a perfume. Tequila, from blue Weber agave inside Mexico’s denomination; mezcal and its cousins, where the species and the oven change the sentence. Agave is one chapter in our book. It is the chapter we already know how to read.
Our interest is the distill that still tastes of its source. Additives, anonymous bulk, and a story written after the bottling are not a reason to cross an ocean.
A house mark
Tequila Dichoso sits inside the company, not above it.
Diego Tornado Imports is the parent. Tequila Dichoso is a brand the company is building: an agave house with its own mark and its own standard, still on the way to the glass. It is proof of the passion. It is not the limit of the permit, and not the limit of the buying.
The rest of the portfolio will be other people’s work, carried under alliance: wines and spirits from Europe, from Mexico, and from producers elsewhere whose bottles meet the same test. Wholesale first. The American trade is the door.