Luxury Edinburgh department store, Harvey Nichols, is proud to be the exclusive retailer in Edinburgh to stock Mexico’s fastest-growing ultra-premium tequila, Maestro DOBEL limited edition ‘Encuentros’ cocktail-making kit.
The kit comprises three handcrafted pieces using local materials; a Mexican marble jigger, a glass mixing jug and stirrer. The fifteen sets are available exclusively at Harvey Nichols instore and online with a RRP of £275.
The limited edition ‘Encuentros’ cocktail making kit, is the result of Maestro DOBEL latest Celebrate Brilliance collaboration with Revolution of Forms, the Mexican craft curators founded by former Head of Design at Christie’s Rafaella Goffredi and award-winning Mexican designer Liliana Ovalle.
The collaboration launches in the wider context of the increasing appetite for Mexican culture, design and gastronomy and the limited edition ‘Encuentros’ cocktail-making kit is inspired by the rituals traditional venues in Mexico adopt when serving cocktails and Ovalle’s designs are brought to life by glass artist Diego Vides Borrell and artisan collective And Jacob.
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Ovalle drew inspiration from Maestro DOBEL’s innovative approach to bridging its 11 generations of expertise with producing world-first styles of tequila. Experimenting with the tactility of glass and marble, the set reflects the transformative process Maestro DOBEL uses to turn agave into their multi-aged cristalino and smoked tequilas, Diamante and Humito.
London-based Revolution of Forms commissioned Ovalle to design the serving concept for DOBEL and Ovalle, in turn, recruited specialist artisans in her homeland dedicated to safe guarding traditional Mexican crafts, while reinterpreting these in inventive, contemporary ways in relation to both form and function:
Encuentros Jigger – is made from South Mexican Negro del Sur marble, sourced from Guerrero, Chiapas. It was hand-carved by the family of eight brothers who form the artisan collective And Jacob: an innovative, archetonic take on a classic bar jigger.
Encuentros Glass Mixing Jar – smoky, black ombré glass mirrors how the tequila leaves the jug on pouring and nods to the hot ovens which bake the agave. The organic imperfections and flow of the black colouration could only be obtained by the expert artistry of glassblower Diego Vides Borrell.
Encuentros Glass Stirrer – inspired by the coa, a special hoe used for harvesting agave, and tipped with silver, also made by And Jacob.
The ‘Encuentros’ set invites us all to enjoy Mexican craftsmanship and connoisseurship with friends at home.
