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The Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello, what a blast! Attendees of the workshop were pleasantly surprised by the tastiness of our list of offerings, including Micah LeMon's sweet and dry vermouths made from Monticello's herb garden, peschen (peach leaf liqueur), and beet,plum, and carrot wines. Oh my!

Check this out... Ian has teamed up with Micah LeMon (arguably Charlottesville's top bartender who serves 'em up right at The Alley Light) to lead a workshop entitled "Harvest Mixology: Using Alcohol as a Complement to Your Garden" at Monticello's Heritage Harvest Festival on Saturday September 12th at 1:30 PM…

Trivia Time! Ever wonder why there are always "X"s on the side of olde tyme moonshine jugs?   Believe it or not, there is a practical reason. Each one of those "X"s indicates a pass through the still. Each run strips more non-ethanol components out of the spirit, making it…

I was just doing some digging on local distilleries and came across this crazy map from 1875 (see image below). One of many things I found amazing was that there were 21 (!) distilleries in Albemarle county (red stars) when the population was only 27,544 people. If the distillery to…