Mel Jr. had tasted spirits. Plenty of them. In fact, as a London-based sommelier specializing in sake, his job was to sample rare drinks from all over the world. But he’d never tasted anything like this. One sip from that bottle of Pascola Bacanora uncovered rich notes of pepper, mesquite smoke and sugar. Hints of vanilla and burnt caramel.An incredible flavor profile that captured the best of tequila and mezcal and then somehow surpassed them both. How had he never heard of Bacanora before? Mel asked around San Carlos and found out that Bacanora had an amazingly colorful history (see our history of Bacanora tab for more on that) and was virtually nonexistent anywhere else in the world. He knew right then what he had to do.