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 components that symbolize 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 numerous Mexicans working in California fields,” he says. The drink’s title, too, is symbolic: “The components on this cocktail symbolize the dreamer who works arduous for household and neighborhood.”
