Every Celebrity Tequila, Tasted & Ranked (2026)

Every A-lister with a stylist now has a tequila. Some are the real thing. Most are a nice-enough spirit wearing a famous face and a 40 percent markup. And a growing handful are currently being sued over whether they are even what the label says. This is my honest ranking of the lot, and it does not care who is on the bottle. What it cares about is what is in the glass, whether the brand is straight about additives, and, in 2026, whether it is tangled in a lawsuit. Fame gets you noticed here. It does not get you ranked.

Three things decide the order, in this priority. First, does it taste like tequila, agave-forward, alive, honest, rather than a sweet, vanilla, cotton-candy liquid engineered to be inoffensive. Second, is the brand straight about additives and production, because in this category that is not a given. Third, in 2026, is it caught up in the wave of adulteration lawsuits, all of which are contested and unproven, but all of which you deserve to know about before you spend. Price and value break ties. I lean on my own pours and the wider blind-tasting consensus, because blind is the only way to strip out the star power. The whole additive and lawsuit backdrop is in my additive scandal investigation if you want the full story.

The nine above are the ones with enough tasting history to rank honestly. But the celebrity agave aisle runs far deeper than that, so here is the rest of the roster, backer by backer, so this really is the complete list.

Still genuinely worth a look: Santo (Sammy Hagar and Guy Fieri), whose Blanco was once named a top-seven blanco by Robb Report, and Hagar is a genuine tequila veteran from his Cabo Wabo days; Codigo 1530 (George Strait), aged in Napa red-wine barrels and quietly respected for its additive-free leanings; Jaja (The Chainsmokers), Casa Cuervo-made and the dark horse that has topped at least one expert blind panel; and Dos Hombres (Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston), a genuinely good Oaxacan mezcal rather than a tequila, but a clear cut above most of this list.

The novelties and the mixed bag: Calirosa (Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo), a pink rosa tequila aged in red-wine barrels; Cincoro Jack (Travis Scott with Michael Jordan), a Tennessee-whiskey-barrel Anejo edition; DeLeon (co-founded by Sean Combs), with wine-cask finishes; and Dos Primos (country star Thomas Rhett) and Don Gato (Danny McBride) rounding out the country and comedy corners.

Approach with low expectations: critics have been unkind to Prospero (Rita Ora), a woman-led brand let down by diffuser production and a thin, hot blanco, and to Casa Del Sol (Eva Longoria), which tasters have likened to candy corn. Both deserve real credit for female ownership in a male-dominated category; neither, on the tasting evidence, earns your money over the tier-one picks.

Agave cousins, not tequila: Nocheluna (Lenny Kravitz) is a sotol, and Cabo Wabo (Sammy Hagar) is arguably the original celebrity agave brand, decades before it was fashionable. And the genuine curveball worth its own mention: Almave (Lewis Hamilton) is not tequila at all but a non-alcoholic distilled agave, and a rather good one, which I gave its own look in the Almave piece.

And for the completists, the celebrity tequila wave did not start yesterday: Justin Timberlake had Sauza 901 and the late Toby Keith had Wild Shot years before the current gold rush. Both have faded, but they belong in any honest history of the category.

Read the verdicts back and one word keeps appearing: sweet. That is not a coincidence, it is the celebrity-tequila business model. These bottles are built to be smooth and approachable for people who do not usually drink tequila neat, which often means sweetness where a traditionalist wants pepper and agave. Industry insiders say it plainly, that many of the biggest celebrity brands are widely assumed to use sweeteners and industrialised methods, the kind of legal, undisclosed additives I break down in the additives piece. Layer on the 2026 lawsuits, all contested and unproven, all denied, that now shadow Casamigos, Don Julio, 818, Cincoro and Teremana, and the honest summary is this: celebrity tequila is rarely bad, but it is rarely the best your money can buy either.

Here is the move nobody with a marketing budget will tell you: the same $40 to $60 you would spend on a famous face buys a verified, additive-free, family-made tequila that outclasses almost everything above. I have tasted my way through them in my best additive-free tequila guide, and laid out the full range for every budget and style in the complete best tequila guide. If your only goal is a great margarita, that has its own dedicated guide too. Buy the spirit, not the celebrity.