Bands with Pans: Heliotropes
Carlo Rossi Red simmers with whole cloves, golden raisins, orange zest and pecans. We each get a generous mug of the stuff—but wait! The rum! “Yeah, this won’t be boozey enough on its own,” Jessica cackles and rations out the white rum into various mugs. It’s not exactly even and two have triple the rum everyone else scored. The gang shoves them toward Jessica and myself. Not to be rude, I oblige. Whoa.