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The Fabled Pour

The back bar

Spirits encyclopedia

This is my back bar. Each entry says what a spirit is, which cocktails it belongs in, how to buy it and where the popular stories go wrong.

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  • agave · distillation

    Tequila and mezcal: the agave spirits

    One plant family, two appellations, and a set of Mexican standards that say exactly what blanco, reposado, artesanal and ancestral mean. Also the worm, which was never in the tequila.

    7 min read · 8 sources