DistilleryDeke Harmon
Quillfeather Farm Distillery · Rhinebeck, NY · since 2012
“The rye grows forty feet from the still. Walk the field, then taste what three years in wood does to it.”
4.8 · 3 experiences · from $75
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Twenty-one people who make what they pour.
Not brands. Not tasting rooms with someone else’s wine on the shelf. Every one of them has been visited, and every one of them still works the floor.
- 21
- producers
- 6
- regions
- 1 in 3
- applications approved
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Elena Ruiz
Perdenales Ridge Cellars · Fredericksburg, TX · making wine since 2009
“There are nine inches of soil here before you hit limestone. Everything I do is an argument with that.”
Estate Tempranillo and Mourvèdre grown on shallow limestone, fermented in concrete.
- 3
- experiences
- 4.9
- from 236 visits
- $65
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Chosen from the 7 producers rating 4.85 or better across at least 100 visits, in rotation, one a month. It cannot be bought — $0 is what a producer can pay for placement here, at any stage.
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Wes Alvarado
Salt Fork Distilling Co. · Johnson City, TX · since 2014
“Blue corn from forty miles away, on a still I hammered myself.”
4.7 · 3 experiences · from $35
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Tom Rideout
Angas Fold Distilling · Nuriootpa, South Australia · since 2016
“We buy the casks the wineries are finished with. Half this valley ends up in the spirit somehow.”
4.8 · 2 experiences · from A$55
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Ross Kinloch
Auchenree Distillery · Craigellachie, Moray · since 1897
“Same shape of still since 1897. We replaced one once and spent two years getting the spirit back.”
4.8 · 2 experiences · from £25
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Callum Petrie
Glen Tarrach · Aberlour, Moray · since 2011
“Everyone here is older than us by a century. That is permission to try things, not a reason not to.”
4.8 · 2 experiences · from £30
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Ways in, if 21 is too many
All collectionsThird generation or more
6 producers
Fewer than six people
11 producers
Founded by women
8 producers
Joined this year
13 producers
Every one of these counts producers who answered the question themselves, in their own editor — not producers we think qualify. Some decline, and a producer who declines is counted on neither side. We never guess who founded a business from a name.
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Every producer, by region
Short enough to print in full. That’s the point.
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Every producer we hold a record for is named above. The atlas counts 17 open regions across the whole roster we are building toward; the names here are the ones you can book today.
Make something and pour it yourself?
We approve about one in three who apply, and we visit before we decide.