Natasha Sideris, the restaurateur behind Tashas Group, and DJ Black Coffee are teaming up to create a premium agave spirit label in South Africa, according to Bloomberg. The label, Leonista, is set to launch at the end of the year. Sideris and Maphumul will source agave from the Karoo, a semi-arid region known for its premium lamb products. Black Coffee launching a spirit brand Leonista will be similar to tequila, meaning that it is distilled from the same plant genus. But tequila can only be made in specific regions of Mexico
Kevin Hart’s Gran Coramino tequila has generated about $200 million in cumulative retail sales since 2022, executives said on Yahoo Finance’s “Opening Bid.” Reporting from Yahoo Finance cites co-founder and liquor executive James Morrissey saying the brand produced $85 million in 2025 retail sales, sold 3.6 million bottles, and delivered nearly $2 million in weekly consumer-level sales in stores. Yahoo Finance also reported that Gran Coramino sold nearly 300,000 nine-liter cases in roughly three years, with about half of those cases attributed to 2025. The numbers matter because U.S. spirits
