We are excited for another great year, highlighting craft distillers from Wine Country and the surround counties. Here are the vendors you can look forward to seeing at the 2nd annual Wine Country Distillery Festival!
Craft Distillery Vendors
St. Helena, CA – “For 34 years, Charbay has been producing small releases of handcrafted spirits, wines, ports, aperitifs & liqueurs in Northern California”.
Fortuna, CA – “ORGANIC SPIRITS FROM HUMBOLDT COUNTY – On California’s redwood coast, we make quality and award-winning spirits, including organic vodka, organic rum, organic spiced rum, and Humboldt’s Finest. We also distill small batches of apple brandy available for purchase at the distillery”.
Ukiah, CA – “Rapscallion Spirits is the distilled result of nonconformity, unmatched flavor found in familiar contradictions where revolution collides with purpose”.
Rohnert Park, CA – “We raise our bottles to you! May our Premium Aged Rums and our unique selection of Blended Spirits warm your belly, the way that you have warmed our hearts”.
Petaluma CA – “We’re a family-run operation with an emphasis on high quality, California-grown ingredients and meticulous craftsmanship. From formal analysis to custom still controls of our own design, we infuse every step of the spirit-making process with ingenuity and precision—merging craft and science to create spirits that are both beautiful and complex”.
Sebastopol, CA – “Like their unique Sloe Gin, husband and wife team, Timo and Ashby Marshall bring a combination of traditional British legacy and innovative West Coast style to Spirit Works Distillery”.
Healdsburg, CA – “From grain to shelf, we belabor every detail for quality and continually strive to innovate, trying out new, novel techniques, flavors and experimentation’s to create exceptional distilled products for all to enjoy”.
Richmond, CA – “A small batch producer of award winning spirits using the abundance of high quality farm products produced in California. We pay great deal of attention to every aspect of our production from sourcing to bottling. Our production runs are between 300 to 1000 bottles per batch; All handmade and hand bottled”.
Redwood Valley, CA – “The distillery uses ancient methods learned during a lengthy apprenticeship with a brandy master from Cognac. Crispin, Tamar’s president applies the old double distillation method used in Cognac for over 500 years to make Low Gap Whiskey, and our other products. This allows him to select only the heart of the spirit to save for aging, blending, and drinking, lending a particularly high quality to the finished products”.
San Francisco, CA – “Established in early 2011 by Master Distiller, Carter Raff who’s distilling experience amounts to 17+ years. Located in San Francisco, the distillery sits in the old Navy Brigg on Treasure Island, a most appropriate place for distilling gin, absinthe, and rhum. Raff spirits are all handcrafted and produced in lots of 350 gallons or less”.
Santa Rosa, CA – ” Ginny’s Gin is handcrafted by winemakers, distilled from grapes and grain and presented in a wine bottle to honor its vineyard provenance. Lush, dangerously smooth and perfectly balanced…”
Healdsburg, CA – “The distillery produces premium spirits in small batches using traditional distilling techniques. Every part of the process is done right here at the distillery in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California—from milling the grain, to mashing, fermenting, distilling, barreling, and bottling”.
Hopland, CA – “We produce three individual, single vineyard estate spirits. They range in age from 5 to 25 year aged in barrel. They have won numerous awards while up against the finest Brandy and Cognac in the world. The highly respected American Distilling Institute’s Annual Judging of Artisan American Spirits has awarded our brandy the gold medal every year since 2009. We can arrange a private tasting for true brandy lovers. “
Petaluma, CA – “We are a family run distillery dedicated to the art of distilling. We use the best heirloom corn, malted grain, and organic herbs to make our traditional and hand crafted spirits.”
Windsor, CA – “Each sip of gin sings a story. It begins in a forest or a field–an encounter of the forager and a sprig–and continues through the crafting process. At Sipsong Spirits we share nature’s story by distillation in our copper alembic stills and invite you to join us.”
Sonoma, CA – “As a family we have found our passion — one might say obsession — for making something truly unique that gives you the opportunity to choose something different and — we’re convinced you’ll agree — better. Our vision of an organic, grape-based, gluten-free and non-GMO vodka is the embodiment of Hanson of Sonoma.”
Santa Rosa, CA – “Splinter spirits are artfully blended and finished in experienced French oak wine barrels. Our distinctive cask-finishing technique is crafted under the guidance of renowned winemaker Bob Cabral. This process lends our spirit extra spice, supple texture, complexity, and – more conviviality.”
San Francisco, CA – “True to our initial goals, we have taken the best of traditional Old World distilling techniques and married them with a passion for excellence, innovative thinking, and a willingness to take risks to create No. 209 Gin, a drink for the connoisseur in all of us – after all, even a flawed person can aspire to greatness.”
Sonoma, CA – “As the producers of fine heritage spirits, Puente Internacional is the proud bridge to Mexican culture, traditions, and history through our products and expressions. Through sustainable farming of our own, and families we source from, we put care, thought, and honor into every step from seed to bottle.”
Sanger, CA – ” The Argonauts of the California Gold Rush embodied the pioneering spirit, leaving behind everything in search of adventure and opportunity. We tapped into that spirit for our Brandy – pushing the boundaries of brandy making to explore what California Brandy can be.”
Craft Beverage Vendors
Novato, CA – “King Floyd’s bitters, syrups & salts are handcrafted in small batches. We start the process by sourcing the finest ingredients available. Then we percolate and macerate the freshly ground herbs and spices for up to two months to ensure a robust flavor. We then blend the ingredients and add them to stainless steel tanks with neutral grain spirit, filtered water and let time and nature work its magic”.
Sebastopol, CA – ” Farm to Fizz
Our roots are in Sonoma’s wine country, which gives us a unique perspective on making quality beverages sustainably. We’re positively bubbly over the idea of wine country becoming hard seltzer country, so come visit if you’re in the neighborhood”.
Santa Rosa, CA – “With Jardesca, we reinvent traditional aperitifs – opening drinks – to make them balanced and delicious for moments we share with our friends and family. Jardesca is inspired by our desire to capture the taste of the gardens and the vineyards of California in a bottle”.
Petaluma, CA – “Inspired by the forgotten cocktails of decades past, Monarch Bitters are handcrafted from organic and wild harvested roots, barks, aromatic herbs and flowers. All sourced locally from the Sonoma County countryside and bottled by hand in Petaluma, CA. Cheers to your inner alchemist”.
