Sonora, California · Tuolumne County
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A working distillery in the Sierra foothills.
Copper pot and column stills, running now.
Tasting room and event venue opening spring 2027.
Sonora, California · Tuolumne County
A working distillery in the Sierra foothills.
Copper pot and column stills, running now.
Tasting room and event venue opening spring 2027.
No newsletter. We'll write when the tasting room opens and when event dates are released.
Copper pot and column stills, fermenters, and a bottling line. Everything poured here is made here.
A bar and a glass wall onto the production floor, so you can watch a run while you drink what came off the last one. Seats 50, and 70 with the covered terrace beside it.
An open terrace under two-hundred-year-old oaks, tented for events from April through October — up to 150 seated. Weddings, private celebrations, and corporate gatherings.
A traditional copper pot for character, and column stills for clarity. It's the part of the building people photograph.
Before the stills were running, we hosted receptions right on the distillery floor — like this baptism dinner in 2025. These days the production floor is for production, and celebrations move to the tasting room or outside to The Grove, under the oaks. But it's why we know a party works here.
The distillery has been running for a while. What's going in around it is the rest of the place.
Over this winter the tasting room gets its interior — a bar milled from oaks that came off this hill, cut years ago and left to season, and a glass wall onto the production floor.
Outside, The Grove — the open ground under the old oaks — is graded and compacted, ready for tented ceremonies and long tables by spring.
One note when the tasting room opens, and one when event dates are released. Nothing else, and nothing to anyone else.