{"id":11495,"date":"2026-02-03T18:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=11495"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:31:36","slug":"tabasco-files-spicy-lawsuit-against-stoli-for-its-halapeno-pepper-vodka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=11495","title":{"rendered":"Tabasco Files Spicy Lawsuit Against Stoli For Its \u2018Halape\u00f1o Pepper\u2019 Vodka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/absolut-and-tabasco-get-spicy-with-latest-vodka\/\">Recently<\/a>, Absolut and Tabasco launched their spicy vodka, made with the sauce\u2019s fermented pepper mash. \u00a0Now, however, one of Absolut\u2019s competitors has found itself in hot water after being sued by Tabasco.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Richard Pernod\u2019s Absolut wasn\u2019t the first vodka McIlhenny, the makers of Tabasco, spoke with about a potential partnership. According to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26518951-tabasco-maker-vodka\/\">lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0filed by McIlhenny, discussions with Stoli began in 2024, but when those talks ended in December, Stoli went forward with its version of spicy vodka anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><\/figure>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/the-stoli-halapeno-pepper-vodka-bottle-bears-a-striking-resemblance-to-tabascos-signature-bottle-and-tabascos-owners-have-filed-a-trade-infringement-lawsuit\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Absolut and Tabasco launched their spicy vodka, made with the sauce\u2019s fermented pepper mash. \u00a0Now, however, one of Absolut\u2019s competitors has found itself in hot water after being sued by Tabasco.\u00a0 Apparently, Richard Pernod\u2019s Absolut wasn\u2019t the first vodka McIlhenny, the makers of Tabasco, spoke with about a potential partnership. According to a\u00a0lawsuit\u00a0filed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[498,2352,2892,2883],"class_list":["post-11495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-absolut","tag-lawsuit","tag-stoli","tag-tabasco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}