Lake and Mendocino Counties have been producing excellent Bartlett pears for more than a century. We’ve been distilling them since 1987.

Pear aromas and flavors are difficult to capture by distillation, and pears tend to do best in clear eaux-de-vie, which we don’t produce. We have never been completely happy with our pear brandies as they get older in the barrel. However, they lend themselves to superb liqueurs: pear brandy is the base of the 6 releases of our Creme de Poete, and now of a pear liqueur we are proud to bottle.

Starting in 2007, Joe Corley spent five years developing a liqueur based on aged pear distillates, inspired by a memorable product formerly made at the RMS brandy distillery in Napa (we consulted with its creator, the talented Rick Estes). This is not a weirdly long time to occupy oneself with a craft-method liqueur.