Sam Levy

Finding Napa Valley in a (Cocktail) Glass

The Restaurant at Meadowood's Sam Levy is defining a new, more nuanced style of California cocktail. Peden + Munk capture his process both on the farm and behind the bar.…

• story: Leslie Pariseau
• photos: Peden + Munk

Meadowood’s Quince & Asian Pear Brandy

With the help of Stillwater Spirits, Meadowood bartender Sam Levy combined an apple mash with native yeast and fresh apples to distill his own eau de vie, which was then…