"Tequila Patron is exclusively 100% agave ... More than 400 employees at a given time work to cork, seal, and label each bottle by hand, and at least 60 hands touch each bottle.

So long as additives make up less than 1% of the total liquid in a bottle, tequila distillers are not required to disclose their presence on the label. Though that might sound like a slim number ...

In recent years, the CRT has pushed back against brands that label themselves as "additive-free," going so far as to file a lawsuit against a non-profit dubbed the Additive-Free Alliance.