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La Gritona Reposado
La Gritona
A reposado that refuses to shout — Melly Barajas lets the agave and terroir carry the conversation. Understated, elegant, and one of the great values in agave spirits.
Deanston Virgin Oak Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Deanston
By finishing in new American oak rather than used casks, Deanston lets the raw timber speak alongside its signature unpeated malt character. The result is a whisky where the wood's influence is transparent and direct. An excellent illustration of how barrel choice shapes a spirit from the inside out.
LALO Blanco Tequila
LALO
A purist's blanco — unaged, additive-free, and built on disciplined choices. The tension between bright highland fruit and earthy mineral grip is exactly what makes it memorable.
Kilbeggan Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey Cask Strength
Kilbeggan
Kilbeggan's cask strength pot still release punches with conviction, showcasing the raw power of Ireland's oldest licensed distillery. The high proof amplifies the classic pot still spiciness without overwhelming the fruit. Add water gradually to unlock layers — this one changes shape in the glass.
Dry Creek Chenin Blanc
Dry Creek Vineyard
Dry Creek Vineyard has championed Chenin Blanc in California for decades, and this bottling is a quiet testament to why the grape deserves more attention. It delivers warmth and generosity without excess—an approachable, food-friendly white that offers far more complexity than its modest price suggests. A wine that communicates comfort before you even find the words.
Lambay Small Batch Blend
Lambay Whiskey (Baring Family & Maison Camus)
Lambay Small Batch Blend is a whiskey born from an unlikely marriage — Irish triple-distilled spirit and French cognac cooperage, united by an island in the Irish Sea. The Cognac cask finish is not a gimmick; it adds a genuine floral and stone-fruit dimension that most blended Irish whiskeys lack entirely. And the sea-air finishing gives the whole package a maritime lightness that makes it dangerously easy to drink. At around $30, it's one of the most interesting experiments in Irish whiskey — and a reminder that where your casks breathe matters as much as what's inside them. Cocktail — "The Island Sour": Combine 2 oz Lambay Small Batch, 1 oz fresh lemon juice, 0.75 oz honey syrup, and 1 egg white. Dry shake vigorously, then shake with ice. Strain into a coupe and garnish with a few drops of Angostura on the foam. The honey and Cognac-cask character play beautifully against the citrus acid.
Domaine Marcel Richaud Rasteau Rouge 2021
Domaine Marcel Richaud
Marcel Richaud practices organic and biodynamic farming in Rasteau, and this cuvée shows the purity that approach yields. The wine's restraint is its greatest asset — the space between fruit and structure is perfectly calibrated, making it immediately drinkable yet thoughtful enough to slow down with.
Corralejo Añejo Tequila
Corralejo
Corralejo Añejo is a working-class añejo that refuses to sand down its edges—exactly the kind of spirit that rewards attention rather than casual sipping. Its Guanajuato provenance and column-plus-pot distillation give it a textural complexity uncommon at its modest price. For anyone who finds hyper-smooth tequilas boring, this is a compelling argument for character over refinement.
Domaine Cosse Maisonneuve Cahors La Fage 2021
Domaine Cosse Maisonneuve
Cosse Maisonneuve farms biodynamically and vinifies with minimal intervention, letting the iron-rich limestone terroir of Cahors speak through the Malbec. La Fage is their entry-level bottling, but there's nothing entry-level about its depth. This is Malbec before the New World got hold of it — taut, dark, and unapologetically tannic.
Plantation Grande Réserve Barbados 5 Year Old Dark Rum
Plantation
Plantation Grande Réserve demonstrates how double-cask maturation creates complexity beyond what either environment could achieve alone. At this price, it delivers remarkable polish and makes an exceptional foundation for elevated rum cocktails.
Clos de la Roilette Fleurie 2022
Clos de la Roilette
Alain Coudert's Clos de la Roilette is one of Beaujolais's most consistent and compelling producers, and the 2022 vintage delivers the quintessence of Fleurie — it's the cru that earned its name from flowers. This is Gamay without pretense, a wine that demands nothing but a glass and a moment. Serve it slightly cool.
Genevieve Genever-Style Gin
Anchor Distilling Company
A cerebral, textural gin that whispers where others shout. Genevieve rewards patient sippers and reshapes classic cocktails with malty gravity.
Domaine Sigalas Assyrtiko Santorini 2023
Domaine Sigalas
Sigalas is widely considered Santorini's benchmark Assyrtiko producer, and the 2023 vintage demonstrates why. Ancient, ungrafted, basket-trained vines rooted in volcanic ash produce a wine of extraordinary mineral intensity. This is the vinous equivalent of licking a sun-warmed volcanic rock — in the best possible way.
Bower Hill Barrel Reserve Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Bower Hill
An overlooked small-batch sourced bourbon that punches well above its price point — structured, spice-forward, and quietly complex, ideal for drinkers who prize backbone over gloss.
George Dickel Bottled in Bond 13 Year Old
George Dickel
At 13 years, this bottled-in-bond release punches well above its price point. The extra time in barrel has given it a seriousness and depth that rewards slow sipping. One of the most quietly compelling values in American whiskey.
Livio Felluga Friulano Colli Orientali del Friuli 2023
Livio Felluga
Livio Felluga's Friulano is a masterclass in restraint and regional identity. This is a grape that thrives in the specific heat-to-cool ratio of Friuli's hillsides — warm enough to ripen fully, cool enough to retain the acidity that gives the wine its verve. The 2023 vintage delivers textbook Friulano: almond, flowers, minerals, and nothing it doesn't need.
Jeppson's Malört
Jeppson's
Malört is not a spirit you recommend lightly — it's a rite of passage, a loyalty test, and a cultural artifact of Chicago's bar scene rolled into one defiant bottle. It does exactly one thing and does it with absolute conviction: deliver the most aggressively bitter drinking experience commercially available. Whether that's a feature or a bug depends entirely on who you are, but there's no denying its singular identity in the spirits world.
Château Peyrassol Commanderie de Peyrassol Rouge Côtes de Provence 2021
Château Peyrassol
Provence is better known for rosé, which makes this red from a 13th-century Templar estate all the more compelling. The Syrah-Cabernet blend captures the warmth of the Provençal sun without excess, delivering a red that is structured enough to pair with grilled meats but fresh enough for a summer evening. Excellent value.
Siete Leguas Blanco
Siete Leguas
Siete Leguas Blanco is a benchmark unaged tequila. The traditional tahona and roller mill combination extracts maximum character from highland agave, and the result is a spirit that's both pristine and deeply flavored. Essential for any serious tequila shelf.
Greenhook Ginsmiths Old Tom Gin
Greenhook Ginsmiths
Greenhook Ginsmiths Old Tom is a masterclass in the style — richly botanical yet balanced, with barrel influence that serves as a hinge between classic gin brightness and whiskey-like depth. It perfectly embodies the spirit of seasonal transition, offering both the lightness of summer botanicals and the warmth of autumn's arrival. A superb sipper and an elevated cocktail foundation.
Jeptha Creed Bloody Butcher Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Jeptha Creed
Jeptha Creed's commitment to ground-to-glass production makes this bourbon a quiet masterclass in fermentation's influence on flavor. The Bloody Butcher corn—an heirloom red varietal grown on the family's own Shelby County farm—delivers a distinctive cereal sweetness that mass-produced bourbons simply cannot replicate. It's a bottle that rewards thoughtful sipping and reminds you that great whiskey begins long before the barrel.
Domaine François Chidaine Montlouis-sur-Loire Les Tuffeaux 2023
Domaine François Chidaine
Chidaine's biodynamic farming and limestone cave aging let this Chenin Blanc speak with uncommon clarity. Les Tuffeaux is about subtraction — no barrel influence, no malolactic richness, just the grape and the tuffeau stone beneath the vines. The hollow between its acidity and its sweetness is narrow and thrilling.
Domaine Josmeyer Riesling Les Pierrets 2023
Domaine Josmeyer
Josmeyer's Les Pierrets vineyard produces a Riesling of crystalline purity, the kind of white wine that makes you reconsider everything you thought about Alsatian richness. The 2023 vintage brings a taut, energetic acidity that will carry this wine for several years, but it drinks beautifully now with its bright fruit and stony backbone. A textbook warm-vintage Alsatian Riesling.
Foradori Fontanasanta Manzoni Bianco 2022
Foradori
A stunning expression of Manzoni Bianco (Riesling × Pinot Blanc) that reads like a mountain field distilled into a glass — cerebral, mineral, and quietly profound.