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Making Mezcal: The Arrelanes Legacy
“Mezcal directly from the family that produces it, people we trust and love.”
Modern Luxury Dallas on Fuenteseca Reserva Tequila 21: “Connoisseurs Will Flip”
Modern Luxury Dallas magazine says Fuenteseca Reserva Tequila 21 is “aged to perfection” and that “few tequila producers have the patience to make a tequila like this.” Visit their site for the full review.
BTI 2016: Panama-Pacific Ranked #1 Aged Rum
We’re honored to share the news that Panama-Pacific Rum 23 Year has been awarded a “superlative” Platinum Award by the Beverage Tasting Institute, ranking #1 in its Aged Rum category. Their tasting notes read, “Bold, spicy, creamy complex aromas of cherry cola float, spiced peaches…
Miami RumXP: Panamá-Pacific Takes Home 2 Gold Medals
The RumXP International Rum Expert Tasting Panel has announced results of the 2016 RumXP International Tasting Competition held at the Miami Rum Renaissance Festival from April 12 to 14, 2016. The event brought together a vast selection of rums from Sweden and Denmark, India, Reunion Island, Madagascar,…
Panama-Pacific International Exhibition
Here in San Francisco, we recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition. Visit the PPIE 100 website for more information about the fascinating history of this event.
Spanish-Style Rums
The world of rum (and rhum) can be divided into three category styles: British, French, and Spanish (based on what country colonized what area). Funky Jamaican rums are a well-known example of the British style. Grassy, vegetal rhum agricoles from Martinique exemplify the French style.…
Palmetto
2 oz Panama-Pacific 9 Rum 1 oz Italian vermouth 2 dashes Angostura bitters Stir with ice and strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with an orange zest. There’s not much to say about the Palmetto. Except to say it’s delicious and mysteriously absent from most cocktail menus. If you…
Mezcal 101
Mezcal is timeless. Channeling centuries of ceremony and culture, it is big, bold and vivid… exemplary, potent and singular. Mezcal is not tequila, it is a true, living antiquity, a magnificent, mystifying panacea forged in a style that glorifies the peoples of the mountains, the plains and the…
La Rosa Prieta
From Spitz Little Tokyo in Los Angeles 2 oz Don Amado Rustico Mezcal 3/4 0z St-Germain elderflower liqueur 1/2 oz lime juice 1/2 oz Simple syrup (1 to 1) 2 oz grapefruit juice 1 lime squeeze Shake and strain into an ice-filled Collins glass. Garnish…
The Man Who Changed Tequila: A Rags to Agave Story
By Lance Cutler They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and that where Enrique Fonseca’s story began: with necessity. Enrique and his father were some of the biggest and best agave growers in the highlands near their hometown, Atotonilco El Alto, in the…