Qualla: Cabo Wabo https://qualla.com/cabo-wabo en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/s/1/f/cabo-wabo-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cabo Wabo https://qualla.com/cabo-wabo Cabo Wabo: Introduction https://qualla.com/cabo-wabo/ Photo credit Public domain. The story goes like this: Sammy Hagar watched a man stumble along a beach in Cabo San Lucas after a long night of partying, and a word was born. He mashed the town's nickname with a mangled version of "wobble" and got "Cabo Wabo" -- a phrase he turned into a Van Halen song in 1988, then a cantina in 1990, and eventually an $80 million tequila brand. What started as a place for a rock star and his friends to jam between tours became one of the most recognizable names in both nightlife and spirits on the Baja Peninsula.

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/s/1/f/cabo-wabo-wp/9s1f-cabo-wabo-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cabo Wabo: The Wobble That Started It All https://qualla.com/cabo-wabo/ Photo credit Thelmadatter, CC BY-SA 4.0. Hagar first fell for Cabo San Lucas in the early 1980s, years before he replaced David Lee Roth as Van Halen's frontman in 1985. The fishing village at the tip of the Baja Peninsula was still small then, rough-edged and unhurried, the kind of place where a rock musician could dis...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/s/1/f/cabo-wabo-wp/9s1f-cabo-wabo-the-wobble-that-started-it-all.mp3 0:06 2 full Cabo Wabo: From Financial Wreck to Beachside Institution https://qualla.com/cabo-wabo/ Photo credit Thelmadatter, CC BY-SA 4.0. The cantina was, at first, a disaster. Cabo San Lucas had not yet become the mega-resort it is today, and the bar bled money. Hagar bought out his bandmates and took over management himself. The timing proved fortunate: as the town boomed through the 1990s, transforming from a sl...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/s/1/f/cabo-wabo-wp/9s1f-cabo-wabo-from-financial-wreck-to-beachside-institution.mp3 0:06 3 full Cabo Wabo: The Tequila That Outgrew the Bar https://qualla.com/cabo-wabo/ Photo credit Simon Davison from Los Gatos, United States, CC BY 2.0. In the late 1990s, Hagar began pouring a house-brand tequila for his regulars, commissioning it from a family-owned distillery in Jalisco. Guests kept asking where they could buy bottles to take home. In 1999, Winston Wilson of Wilson-Daniels, a Napa Valley wine and spirits impor...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/s/1/f/cabo-wabo-wp/9s1f-cabo-wabo-the-tequila-that-outgrew-the-bar.mp3 0:06 4 full Cabo Wabo: An $80 Million Toast https://qualla.com/cabo-wabo/ Photo credit Spheroidite, CC BY-SA 4.0. In May 2007, Hagar sold 80 percent of Cabo Wabo Tequila to Gruppo Campari, the world's sixth-largest spirits company, for $80 million. The deal was handled through Skyy Spirits, Campari's San Francisco-based vodka subsidiary, with plans to push the brand into global markets inclu...

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