Don Amado Mezcal Rustico SPBURGUNDY mineral-driven take on a grape

mineral-driven take on a grape that is usually written off as background noise

and now works exclusively with North America's native grapes and hybrids: vines that handle California's climatic extremes without chemical babysitting

grilled fish

a perfectly balanced gin and one of the most awarded gins in the world

making it a stellar introduction to low-intervention wines without being intimidatingly funky

Don Amado Mezcal Rustico SPBURGUNDY mineral-driven take on a grapeSanta Catarina Minas is the Oaxacan village known for distilling mezcal in clay pots instead of copper, and this is the bottling that put that style on most American back bars. The Arellanes family has been distilling here for generations: mature highland espadn is roasted about four days in wood fired earthen pits over guamchil and mesquite, fermented with wild yeast, then twice distilled in small ceramic stills fitted with bamboo tubes. Clay yields