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The World’s Biggest Tequila Collector Shares the Best Bottles to Buy

Plus, a true rum lover’s tasting experience and a delicious mezcal cocktail to make at home.

Six absolutely excellent agave spirits

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Kara Newman here, your friendly cocktail and spirits expert. In this edition of Top Shelf, we’re talking about some of the best tequilas and mezcals as selected by the keeper of a certified record-breaking collection of agave spirits. But first, some drink links:

Earlier this summer, Mexican restaurant M Cantina in Dearborn, Michigan, set a new Guinness World Record for offering the most varieties of commercially available agave spirits—they have 1,825 distinct bottlings, to be precise—shattering the record previously held by New Jersey’s Meximodo with 1,033.