Paranubes

This is a spiced coffee liqueur rooted in place. Admixtures of herbs, chiles, flowers, and spices perform specific functions to the blend as emulsifiers and flavor agents. Like a symphony, each plays a role in this distinctive Oaxacan-spiced coffee liqueur.

José Luis Carrera is the producer of Paranubes, a rum distilled from the juice of fresh-pressed sugarcane and located deep in Southern Mexico. In a compact river valley in Oaxaca’s Sierra Mazateca surrounded by hillsides covered in spunky green cane plantations, Jose Luis’s distillery is paradisiacal. A trapiche (sugarcane mill) stands sentinel under a large fringed palapa, while two wooden vats, used for fermentation, and two copper stills are set on a decline and in descen