South African Agave Spirit

From South Africa comes a spirit inspired by reposado mezcal and made much in the same way, except this was infused with wild Cape honey too. There's also a lioness on the bottle. Which is cool.

A South African spirit made in the image of the agave spirits we love in Mexico using actual, local Karoo agave. For the Reposado Black, the folks at Leonista tried to make something less smokey than its usual style of reposado and create more of a Tequila than a mezcal with lots of mellow sweetness

Imagine a mezcal made in South Africa using local agave. That would be interesting to taste, wouldn't it? Of course, you couldn't call it a mezcal. But you could put a lioness on the label. That's exactly what Leonista has done here with an unaged blanco expression, made with sustainable, organic, a