After going to the Inaugural Commonwealth Wednesday at Carmel Belle - and meeting the creative drink maven Lauren De Vine - I've been meaning to order from her CSLDV. That's 'Community Supported Lauren De Vine'! Well, I finally did order. Woo hoo. Woo hoo. Last Friday, before leaving for Palo Alto so the kids could attend Stanford Splash! , Lauren brought me a quart of her cucumber, rose, lemon, thyme spirit base and a quart of her Fall Stone Fruit Sour - a local spiced stone fruit shrub, citrus, sage. I carried them with us and brought sparkling water for the kiddos and a sparkling wine for me and Jake. Look at her adorable packaging: yellow stattice and handwritten labels. As if I needed more reasons to love her. I appreciate that Lauren provides serving suggestions and alcohol and non-alcohol pairings. We tested both bases and were wildly impressed with the depth of flavor in the bases. The flavors melded together effortlessly yet wer...