Bar Agricole is the San Francisco bar from spirits professional and writer Thad Vogler. It’s prized for its cocktails, however the bar is now giving its identify to a brand new portfolio of single origin spirits centered on clear and direct sourcing, heritage distillation practices, and the provenance and high quality of components.
Very like third wave espresso (Blue Bottle Espresso founder James Freeman is a Bar Agricole advisor), single origin spirits join customers with the locations the place they’re grown and made. The Bar Agricole spirits are all sourced instantly from small producers and supplied of their purest type, with out counting on colorants and components. This enables their agricultural beginnings, fermentation, and distillation to shine.
Collaborators embrace Alameda, California-based St. George, considered one of America’s unique craft distilleries; Leopold Bros., a family-owned distillery in Denver famend for site-specific components, flooring maltings, and hand-bottled whiskeys; Marian Farms, an outfit making brandy and liqueur on a biodynamic farm and distillery in Fresno, California; Calvados Adrien Camut, essentially the most famend producer from the Pays d’Auge area in France; and Actual Minero, a standard palenque (mezcal distillery) in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Contemplating that Bar Agricole’s spirits line is model new, the lineup is intensive. It contains the next bottles, offered by way of the web site in 750 mL and 50 mL sizes.
Golden Alpine Amaro
Sweetened with solely honey and freed from all colorants, extracts, essences, industrial alcohols, and sugars, this amaro is exquisitely bitter. It’s produced from contemporary herbs in collaboration with the home of Bodiga, who has been producing amari because the nineteenth century.
Vermouth #1
Made with natural nebbiolo wine and enhanced with actual cane sugar (relatively than industrial sweeteners and caramel coloring), this vermouth is bottled by Bordiga, options greater than 30 totally different macerations—versus extracts or essences—and celebrates Italy’s aperitivo tradition.
Lalocura, Pechuga Single Run Mezcal, Bar Agricole Celebration
This collaboration with Eduardo “Lalo” Javier Angeles Carreño (who’s a staunch conservator of the custom of agave distillates in addition to of the agave plant) and the workforce at Lalocura was made particular for Bar Agricole to have fun the bar’s reopening.
Biodynamic California Brandy
The one Demeter-certified biodynamic brandy in america, this brandy is fermented and distilled in a German copper nonetheless, and aged on the Marian Farms premises by Gena Nonini, whose household has farmed there for generations.
Demeter Licensed Curaçao
This curaçao was developed with Gena Nonini of Marian Farms and dcontains solely three components, all of them biodynamically farmed: California orange peels, sugar, and grape spirit.
Bar Agricole Gin by St. George
This gin is specifically made for Bar Agricole by St. George with notes of citrus and eucalyptus to mirror the Bay Space’s aromatics and California landscapes.
St. George Single Cask Rum
This rum is constructed from 5 separate harvests of sugar cane, carried out in December of 2013 and January of 2014, from Kalin Farms in Brawley, California. Fermented individually, every was distilled in separate batches. The 5 rums have been then blended collectively and rested in a recouped Francois Frères barrel starting in March 2014.
St. George Single Cask Apple Brandy
This distinctive apple brandy started as a cider produced from a subject mix of apples grown by Gowan Orchards in Philo, California. The cider was then distilled with 8,000 kilos of contemporary, unfermented Crimson Scrumptious apples, additionally grown by Gowan Orchards. It has been aged since March 27, 2015 in a 59-gallon French oak barrel that beforehand held a unique cider.
