Laurel Canyon is an herbally-driven drink offered at your fave neighborhood watering hole, Miles. To start with, the drink features the “Art In The Age Sage,” which is a spirit that recreates the garden gins produced in the post colonial, pre-industrial United States. “The Sage spirit is really interesting, in that it features many of the botanicals found in artisanal gins, but lacks juniper, without which a spirit cannot be called gin,” says Phoebe Waterson, creator of the Laurel Canyon. “When creating a cocktail with the Sage, we really wanted to showcase the Sage spirit without overpowering it,” Phoebe added in our email exchange. Therefore, Art In The Age Sage is mixed with just enough lemon and simple syrup. To top it all off, both literally and figuratively, comes a rosemary twig and a spray of mescal. Those two intense earthy tones complete the herbaceous background of the spirit. Like a good menage a trois, everything is moving along well together, creating according to Phoebe a “unique and balanced cocktail.”