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ESSENTIALS Spirited Away Looking to bring home a taste of your travels? If you're staying at a JW Marriott hotel in any of these locations, pick up what the locals drink and recreate your vacation any time the spirit moves you. BY JASON ROWAN DESTINATION Mexico City, Mexico SPIRIT Mezcal BRAND Mezcaloteca Madrecuixe Mezcal is the fastest growing category on menus at serious cocktail bars, gaining converts with its smoky, lustrous complexity and potent terroir—it’s literally an expression of local earth, as the maguey is smoked underground. The very-hard-to-get Mezcaloteca boasts superior balance, with tobacco notes and a smoked pepper ﬁnish. Mezcaloteca’s tasting room at its headquarters in Oaxaca is a no-frills palace for mezcal lovers, with some of the best and most obscure mezcals available for sampling. DESTINATION DESTINATION DESTINATION Rio de Janeiro, Brazil San Francisco, California Cannes, France SPIRIT Cachaça SPIRIT Rye Absinthe BRAND BRAND Blanche Traditionelle “Brut D’Alambic” Essai 6 Salvatore Cimino is an old-school barber in Nob Hill by day and an uncommonly talented maker of handmade very-small-batch artisanal spirits by night. His 100-percent rye joins a new wave of ryes on the market, but stands out for being both surprisingly smooth and elevated with bright, clean notes of red apples, vanilla and spicy pepper. Hard to ﬁnd outside of California, this one is nearly impossible to get overseas. While Pernod Ricard and others now oﬀer ﬁne wormwood-free absinthes around the world, bringing the real deal home from France will doubtless impress spirit-loving friends. Herby, fruity and silky, this wormwood-rich formulation in the Swiss style has gained a cult following among absinthe aﬁcionados. Avuá Amburana Brazil’s national spirit ﬁnds elegant expression in this artisanal cachaça. The aged Amburana has a pleasing vegetal nose with hints of Thai basil and allspice, and it’s far less sweet than more mass-market brands—think of a mellow scotch whiskey. Adding to its unique qualities is the fact that the master distiller is a woman, a rarity in a typically male-dominated industry. DESTINATION BRAND 1512 Spirits Aged 100% Rye SPIRIT New York, New York Gin SPIRIT BRAND Dorothy Parker American Gin Made in honor of the biting wit of the dark angel of the Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker American Gin is front-loaded with bold botanicals of elderberries, hibiscus and cinnamon. Part of a renaissance of spiritmaking in Brooklyn, the NY Distilling Company’s co-founder Allen Katz is the unoﬃcial leader of the pack. The front of the distillery happens to be The Shanty, a bar where one can sample the company’s ﬁne oﬀerings in cocktail form, as well as other New York–made spirits. FOR CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED INFORMATION ON OUR PASSIONS OF ART, FOOD, WINE AND WELL-BEING, VISIT US AT FACEBOOK.COM/JWMARRIOTT. J WM MAGAZINE 42 J W M A R R I O T T. C O M http://www.FACEBOOK.COM/JWMARRIOTT http://www.JWMARRIOTT.COM

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of JWM - Volume 3, Issue 3

JWM - Summer 2013
Table of Contents
JW Experts
Contributors
Editor’s Letter
Distinctive Products, People, Ideas & Style
A Quiet Place
Powering Down
Sonoma
Industrial Arts
The Portal
Downtown Dreaming
Sky High
Greens Revolution
Rethinking the Bored Room
JW Experience
My Passion

JWM - Volume 3, Issue 3