Spirits

Salers was founded in 1885 by distiller Alfred Labounoux in the Massif Central, making it the oldest gentian liqueur producer still operating today...

Roku Gin comes from Suntory, the storied Japanese beverage company founded in Osaka in 1899 by Shinjiro Torii, whose gin heritage stretches back to...

Julio González-Frausto Estrada started distilling tequila in 1920s Jalisco at just seventeen years old, eventually founding the La Primavera distil...

Nardini is the oldest distillery in Italy, founded in 1779 when Bortolo Nardini opened a grapperia and distillery beside the Ponte Vecchio in Bassa...

Cantine Lunae Bosoni was founded by Paolo Bosoni in the Colli di Luni district, a hilly stretch of eastern Liguria that straddles the border with T...

Branca Menta is produced by Fratelli Branca Distillerie, the Milan-based house that Bernardino Branca founded in 1845 after developing a bitter her...

Hacienda Santa Teresa was founded in 1796 in Venezuela's Aragua Valley, originally producing coffee, cocoa, and sugarcane, and the estate began dis...

El Buho Mezcal was founded in 2010 by Brooklyn-based chef TJ Steele in partnership with José Isaac "Pepe" Jiménez Méndez, whose family has produced...

Clément Mahina Coco comes from Habitation Clément, the historic Martinique rhum house founded in 1887 by Homère Clément on a former sugar plantatio...

Amara comes from a family of Sicilian growers working on the volcanic slopes of Mount Etna, in Contrada San Martino, where they have cultivated Ara...

Marolo is a family-owned distillery based in Cuneo, in Italy's Piedmont region, where production began in 1977 under founder Bartolomeo Marolo. The...

Campari traces back to 1860, when Gaspare Campari, a former waiter and cafe owner in Novara and later Milan, developed the bitter liqueur that wou...

Maison Monnet has been distilling in Jarnac since 1838, and by the mid-twentieth century had become an official supplier to the Swedish royal court...

Evan Williams 1783 Small Batch is produced by Heaven Hill Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, and named for the year Evan Williams is traditionally ...

Fireball was originally developed in the 1980s by Seagram's as part of its Dr. McGillicuddy's line of flavored schnapps, launched in Canada under t...

Metaxa was founded in 1888 by Spyros Metaxa, who built the company's first distillery in Piraeus, the port of Athens. Born into a family of silk me...

Mars Whisky operates under the Hombo family, distillers in Japan for more than a century, who added whisky to their portfolio in 1949. In 1984 the ...

Bib & Tucker Small Batch Bourbon is produced by W J Deutsch & Sons, a New York-based spirits company that sources this whiskey from an undi...

Ketel One is distilled by the Nolet family in Schiedam, the Netherlands, a distilling tradition passed down through eleven generations since 1691. ...

Old Pulteney distillery has stood in the fishing town of Wick, on Scotland's rugged Caithness coast, since 1826. Nicknamed "the Maritime Malt," the...

Cotton & Reed opened in 2016 in DC's Union Market neighborhood, becoming the first legal rum distillery in the District in nearly a century. It...

Jos. A. Magnus & Co. is a Washington, D.C.-based whiskey house founded to revive the recipes of Joseph Magnus, a distiller whose original spiri...

Casamigos was created by longtime friends George Clooney, Rande Gerber, and Mike Meldman, who set out to make a tequila smooth enough to drink with...

Glen Grant was founded in 1840 by brothers James and John Grant in Rothes, at the heart of Speyside, and remains one of the region's most storied d...

Cocchi Barolo Chinato is produced by Giulio Cocchi Spumanti, the Asti house founded in 1891 by a Florentine pastry chef of the same name who turned...

Meletti is a family-run liqueur house established in Ascoli Piceno, on Italy's Adriatic coast in the Le Marche region, in 1870. Founder Silvio Mele...

Dalmore distillery sits on the shores of the Cromarty Firth in the Scottish Highlands and is closely associated with former master distiller emerit...

Absolut has been distilled in the town of Åhus in southern Sweden since Lars Olsson Smith founded the operation in 1879, using a continuous distill...

Capitoline began in the mid-2000s within the Italian restaurant world of Washington, D.C., where Etto's Peter Pastan and bar manager Kat Hamidi fir...

El Dorado is produced by Demerara Distillers Limited at the Diamond Distillery, the last operating rum distillery in Guyana, a country whose rum ma...

Planteray O.F.T.D. was created in 2015 by Alexandre Gabriel, the Cognac trained owner of Maison Ferrand, working alongside a small circle of noted ...

Casa Herradura was founded in 1870 by Félix López at the Hacienda San José del Refugio in Amatitán, Jalisco, a region considered by many historians...

Maison Jean Fillioux dates back to 1880, when Honoré Fillioux bought a small twenty-hectare estate in Grande Champagne, and in 1894 the family acqu...

Dartigalongue is the oldest house in Bas-Armagnac, tracing its beginnings to 1813 and formally established in 1838 when Pascal Dartigalongue founde...

DeKuyper is a Dutch distilling house with roots stretching back to 1695, one of the oldest continuously operating liqueur producers in the world. O...

Solerno is produced by William Grant & Sons, the Scottish family distillery behind Hendrick's Gin, and was developed by master distiller Lesley...

Liquore Strega comes from Strega Alberti Benevento, a family-run distillery founded in 1860 by Giuseppe Alberti in the southern Italian city of Ben...

Marolo is a family-run distillery founded in 1977 in Alba, in Italy's Piedmont region, by proprietor and head distiller Paolo Marolo. Rather than p...

Metaxa Grande Fine sits near the top of the House of Metaxa's lineup, a Greek spirits house that has been blending amber spirits from Athens since ...

Luxardo is one of Italy's oldest distilling families, founded in 1821 by Girolamo Luxardo in Zara, then part of Dalmatia and now in Croatia. After ...

Tempus Fugit Spirits, founded by historians dedicated to resurrecting rare liqueurs from the pages of the past, built Kina L'Aero d'Or around a nea...

A genuinely unusual blend that shouldn't work but does: straight Indiana rye, straight Indiana bourbon, and peated blended malt Scotch (source und...

Knob Creek was launched by Jim Beam in 1992, part of the original wave of small batch bourbons credited with sparking renewed interest in premium A...

Fábrica de Licores de Antioquia was established in Itagüí, Colombia, with its current plant completed in 1970, and has grown into the country's lea...

Appleton Estate has produced rum in Jamaica's Nassau Valley since 1749, making it one of the oldest continuously operating rum distilleries in the ...

Glenfarclas has operated in Ballindalloch, Speyside, since 1836 and remains one of the few major Scotch distilleries still owned and run by the sam...

GlenDronach was founded in 1826 by James Allardice in the Valley of Forgue, near Huntly in the Scottish Highlands, and the distillery operated its ...

Redbreast has been a benchmark for single pot still Irish whiskey since Gilbey's first bottled it in the early 1900s using distillate from Jameson'...