Query pulling all taxonomies, not one I am specifying

Figured it out. The solution was to include the tax query array inside another array:

// tax_query needs to be an Array of an Array
'tax_query'  => array(
    array(
      'taxonomy' => 'vodka_type',
      'field' => 'slug',
      'terms' => $type,
    ),
),

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)