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Exerpt from Tequila Terroir:

This February, a new Tequila called Ocho launched in Europe with a small but significant difference from other brands: each bottling is labeled with the harvest year and name of the agave field from which it came. Tequila is a spirit unusually ripe for the study of terroir as its raw ingredient does not vary, it is grown in a specified region with diverse soils, and it does not need to be aged like whisky or Cognac (so it can be appreciated without the influence of wood). Yet until now brands have provided consumers with only broad clues as to the origin of the agave in each bottle.