Griffo Distillery

Griffo Distillery is the Petaluma, California craft American whiskey and gin operation founded in 2014 by husband-and-wife team Jenny and Mike Griffo — and one of the most editorially respected small-batch craft distillery operations in the broader Sonoma County wine-country corridor. Located at 1320 Scott Street in Petaluma (the Sonoma County town that anchors the southern end of the broader Russian River Valley craft-beverage corridor), Griffo occupies a working distillery, an on-site cocktail bar and tasting room, and a substantial event-space program in a single integrated converted-industrial facility.

The Griffo editorial identity emphasizes traditional small-batch craft production with a deliberate Sonoma County agricultural sourcing identity. The brand has built a substantial regional Northern California presence through the cocktail-program-forward distribution model that anchors most modern Bay Area craft distilling — the Griffo range appears on the back bars of many of the most-respected San Francisco cocktail program destinations, with the gin and whiskey both used as working palettes for serious mixology rather than just neat-tasting samples.

The product range covers Griffo Scott Street Gin (the flagship — a juniper-and-foraged-California-botanical-forward modern gin, the brand's most-distributed product and the editorial reference point of the broader Griffo identity), Griffo California Wheat Whiskey, Griffo Single Barrel Cask Strength Wheat Whiskey, Griffo American Single Malt Whiskey, Griffo Stout Barrel Aged American Single Malt (finished in casks that previously held Russian River Valley craft beer stout — a regionally-distinctive technique), Griffo Maple Wood Aged Whiskey, Griffo Stuart's Gin (a higher-tier limited release named for the Griffo family), and a rotating range of seasonal and limited single-cask bottlings.

The Petaluma visitor experience runs through the working production floor and the on-site cocktail bar — one of Petaluma's most active craft-distillery destinations and one of the most cocktail-program-forward visitor experiences in the broader Sonoma County craft-beverage scene. The Scott Street location puts Griffo within the broader Petaluma craft-beverage corridor anchored by the surrounding Petaluma brewery cluster, the broader Petaluma downtown restaurant scene, and the year-round Sonoma County wine-and-craft-spirits tourism economy. The on-site programming includes regular cocktail classes, distillery dinners, and private rentals that have anchored the brand's broader Bay Area community presence beyond the standard wholesale distribution channel.