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Woodstone Creek started on a farm in Lebanon, Ohio in January of 1999. Two years later, Woodstone moved to a Cincinnati warehouse to become Ohio's first urban winery/distillery. Woodstone Creek is centrally located near downtown Cincinnati at the intersection of I-71, I-75 and the Norwood Lateral - just a few blocks from Xavier University along Dana Avenue in Evanston. This former factory-warehouse-turned-winery is also a meadery and a port house.

The tasting room, once the factory president's paneled office, is open to the public every Saturday. It features a spectacular curved, 1930's maple and mahogany bar, art gallery and handcrafted jewelry. Customers can sample current releases for a small charge and purchase wine to go by the bottle or case. Wine is served in a keepsake wine glass to take home.

As a true artisan winery and boutique distillery, Woodstone Creek produces limited case lots of wine, mead and distilled spirit. Offerings change seasonally - Ohio grape varietals from dry to sweet, honeywine from local honey, port with our own potstilled brandy and fruit wine from area farms. Woodstone offers an unusual range of mead (7-10) from dry to sweet and fortified dessert wines. Woodstone's potstill produces brandy, honey liqueor, five grain bourbon, single malt whisky (peated and unpeated), dark rum, smoky gin, bierschnaaps and vodka. Truly unique - all the fermentation arts come together at Woodstone Creek as our winemaker is a brewmaster, mead mazer and master distiller all in one!

SPIRITS NEWS:

Woodstone Creek makes the world's rarest bourbon in Cincinnati Ohio. One of our microdistiller counterparts has said (about his own production) "we make less than the big guys spill on the floor". Well, Woodstone Creek makes even less than that guy! He makes three barrels a day - Woodstone makes three barrels a year! The complete winery - meadery - distillery operation occupies only 1500 square feet. There is no automated equipment, no computers, no bottling line. Woodstone Creek uses production techniques common to pre-industrial America.

Cincinnati's small distilleries eclipsed breweries prior to Prohibition. By 1865, Cincinnati churned out 1100 barrels of whiskey a week. A local historian said our Nicholas Longworth started the American wine industry in Cincinnati specifically to encourage whiskey drinkers reduce their alcohol intake. By the time the infamous George Remus came to Cincinnati (to set up his bootleg operation during Prohibition and avoid competition from Al Capone), he had a list of 80 closed distilleries to choose from! There was a lot of alcohol getting made in Cincinnati . . .

Our Ohio Bourbon and Cincinnati Vodka are both rated by the prestigious Beverage Testing Institute of Chicago.

Woodstone Creek Ohio Bourbon, Barrel #2 was hand bottled on the 4th of July '08. Our first aged spirit made it's world debut at Party Source in Bellevue, KY on August 21, 2008. The following week, it was featured as their "Spirit of the Week".

Our single cask peated single malt whisky was introduced at the American Distiller's Institute Artisan Distiller Competition 2008. Judge Jim Murray, author of "The Whisky Bible", gave it a glowing recommendation in his 2009 edition. Read the review.

In a blind taste test reported by CityBeat, Woodstone's vodka wins over 10 nationally known brands! Read about it : VODKA SCHMODKA

January's issue of Cincinnati Magazine has a nice article on our distillery. Read it here

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