How to Buy the Healthiest Booze

Producing liquors in smaller batch sizes allows for more control over the ingredient’s quality, the fermentation process, and the distillation. “I want people to have touched the product,” says Johanessen. Machetazo Mezcal, one of Johannessen’s current obsessions, grows agave on a small, organic, sustainable farm in Guerrero, Mexico. “When mixing, a touch of agave syrup and a little fresh lime juice is all this mezcal should need.”

Machetazo Mezcal, $48.39