
Providence’s Nikki’s Liquors and Horizon Beverage Company hosted a seminar and tasting featuring the St. George Spirits line on July 24. Bryan Bartell, Regional Manager – Northeast, St. George Spirits, led guests through a tasting of several St. George Spirits products, including its new St. George Breaking & Entering American Whiskey as well as St. George Pear Brandy, St. George Absinthe Verte, St. George Green Chile Vodka and St. George Terroir Gin. Founded in 1982, the California-based St. George Spirits is known as one of the first craft distilleries in the U.S., now offering a wide range of artisanal small-batch spirits and liqueurs.
- Guests were greeted with a St. George Spirits welcome cocktail, a blend of St. George’s Campari-inspired aperitivo Bruto Americano mixed with Yacht Club Grapefruit soda.
- Ben Terry, Craft Brand Manager – RI, Horizon Beverage; Bryan Bartell, Regional Manager – Northeast, St. George Spirits; and Mike Iannazzi, Owner, Nikki’s Liquors.
- Guests tasted St. George Breaking & Entering American Whiskey, St. George Pear Brandy, St. George Absinthe Verte, St. George Green Chile Vodka and St. George Terroir Gin.
- St. George Breaking & Entering American Whiskey, the distillery’s latest offering, combines bourbon, rye and malt whiskey.
- The latest packaging for St. George Pear Brandy and its earlier iteration.
- St. George Baller Single Malt Whiskey is a bold, smoky single malt described by St. George Master Distiller Lance Winters as “a California take on the Japanese spin on Scotch whisky.”
Photos by Laura Widness.