Making the highest 5 for the second month in a row, this cocktail is an ode to Watsonville, California, the place Manny Hernandez, a cantinero at Stokes Adobe, lives. Hernandez marries substances that signify the various produce grown there—from the raspberries within the syrup to the aloe within the liqueur—with a spirit, mezcal, that has “a connection to my identification and honors the cultural roots of the various Mexicans working in California fields,” he says. The drink’s title, too, is symbolic: “The substances on this cocktail signify the dreamer who works onerous for household and group.”
