A Visit to Bogotá's Hottest Bar

The realm of Laura Hernández Espinosa has a simple functional name: La sala de Laura. Laura's Room is the name of one of the most exciting new bars in South America. Opened in tandem with the restaurant Leo in June 2021 after the pandemic subsided in Bogotá, it is also the showroom for the company's own distillates from its Territorio line. The Spanish equivalent of terroir, a favorite word amongst many sommeliers, has been entirely reimagined by Hernández Espinosa, who also has also worked in that field. Her spirits in beautifully shaped earthenware bottles are intended to translate nothing less than the regions of Colombia into liquid form. The Andes, for example, are represented by Montaña, a distillate made from the high-mountain passion fruit called gulupa.