Aguardiente and Mexican Rum with Jason Cox

Shift Drink

Lately, there seems to be a theme of guests that had a specific path in life only to find it disrupted and hijacked by the craft spirits business. And this week is no exception.

Jason Cox was working as a translator when he decided to spend a few months studying Mexican slang and dialects. When he attended his first mezcal tasting, he was immediately drawn into a world of fine-dining, mezcal, and Oaxacan rum.

It’s been a circuitous path him but it’s safe to say his life is even more incredible now than it would have ever been as a legal translator. He has now lived in Oaxaca for 15 years and, after founding 5 Sentidos Mezcal, he learned that one of the mezcaleros he had been working with had extensive experience fermenting rum from local sugarcane. Which has now found its home in a bottle labeled Alambique Serrano.

This is the story of how it all came to be.

“Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run… there’s still time to change the road you’re on”.