Goodnow Farms' Putnam Rye Whiskey unites two New England makers and a Dominican bird sanctuary — a Civil War nail baron, an endangered songbird, and quietly the bar that wins every blind tasting we run.

This one means a lot to us. The Maritime Edit — the magazine of luxury living in Atlantic Canada, and a regular voice on Monocle Radio — ran a feature on Hello Chocolate.

To make one of the world's most decorated dark bars, Vigdis Rosenkilde travels from Norway to a remote valley in the Peruvian Andes — chasing Chuncho, an ancestral cacao the Incas once used as money, and possibly the mother of all fine chocolate.