Both the Mexican Mai Tai and Sade’s Daiquiri at Pearl Hour feature a great spirit: Paranubes Rum. It's a pure and undisturbed representation of raw material, capturing not just the flavor, but a sense of its place of origin.

Pearl Hour, located at 214 Lighthouse Avenue in Monterey, opens at 6pm Wednesday - Monday.

About Paranubes Rum

Paranubes Rum is made by wild fermenting the fresh pressed juice of sugarcane grown without pesticide or fertilizer in the rich soil of master distiller Jose Luis Carrera’s farm.

Distilled to proof with no additives, this rum - or aguardiente de caña as it’s known regionally - is exactly what you would find lost in the cloud forest of the Sierra Mazateca mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.