**LIGHTNING STRIKES AT LEAST THREE TIMES WITH GEM&BOLT**
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Mexico’s mythical mezcal is making a break for the border. According to legend, hundreds of years ago a lightning bolt struck the gem of a maguey plant and mezcal was born.
Our pals at GEM&BOLT dropped by the Flaunt office to share their unique concoction, which is made with 100% agave, and infused with Mexico’s treasured damiana herb.
Daughters of bootleggers, Adrina Drina and Elliott Coon have partnered with fourth-generation distillers in Oaxaca, Mexico to provide a clean, pure spirit. All the ingredients are fairly traded and organically grown, and the female-run company has made sustainability a priority.
GEM&BOLT were so kind as to invite us to crawl inside their lovely bottles just to find out what emerged on the other side.
Here’s what the _Flaunt_ staff have to say:
**What does this drink remind you of?**
Sid: Finding water when it was sorely needed.
Matthew: Candle-lit cathedrals along the fabled waterways of Europe met with a roller coaster ride through the heart of Mexico.
**What would you pair with this?**
Mui-Hai: White lace.
**3 words to describe it?**
Matthew: Clean, lean, slightly-obscene.
Mui-Hai: Incandescent, melody, dawn.
Gus: Soft, curvaceous, trouble.
**What song would you listen to while drinking it?**
Matthew: Acid Polly’s sunrise set at the inaugural Day Zero.
Gus: Amason – “Yellow Moon”.
**What is your ideal setting for drinking GEM&BOLT?**
Sid: Hot air balloon over a Bolivian salt flat.
Greg: 6 am.
**_Written by Greg McLellan_**
**_Photographed by Isaac von Hallburg_**
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