Metaxa Master Costas Raptis brings together the secrets of traditional ouzo-making and working with fine distillates, flowers, seeds and botanicals. Ouzo by Metaxa includes rare botanicals, including some absent from ordinary ouzo such as Masticha, an ingredient highly praised for its aromatic qualities and quite rare. Masticha is the tear of an oak bush, harvested by hand in the Aegean island of Chios. One of the costliest ingredients that can go into ouzo. The only ouzo in an attractive light blue transparent bottle.