WHEN REACHING for “the good stuff” in the Land of Enchantment, many drinkers think agave liquors like tequila or mezcal. But Major Arcana Spirits, founded in 2024 by three longtime friends with Santa Fe roots, is championing a different option: aguardiente rum. Traditionally made in Oaxaca from fresh-pressed sugarcane juice and fermented with ambient or wild yeasts, aguardiente is grassy, bright, and complex in a way that molasses-based rums rarely achieve.