Napa Valley Distillery

Napa Valley Distillery is the Napa, California craft spirits operation founded in 2009 by Arthur Hartunian as the first new distillery to open in Napa Valley after Prohibition — and the founding-era reference point for what craft distilling in the world's most famous wine country could look like. Located in downtown Napa at 2485 Stockton Street, Napa Valley Distillery occupies a working distillery, a substantial tasting room and cocktail bar, and an event-space program designed to serve the substantial year-round Napa Valley tourism economy that anchors the broader regional visitor flow.

The Napa Valley wine-country location is editorially central to the brand identity. Napa County and the broader Napa Valley appellation has been one of the most internationally-famous wine production regions in the United States since the 1960s, with roughly 400 wineries operating within the valley's narrow 30-mile geographic footprint and several million annual visitors anchoring the regional tourism economy. Napa Valley Distillery's editorial framing positions the operation within that broader wine-country context — both as a distilling complement to the surrounding wineries (offering a craft-spirits stop on what would otherwise be a wine-only itinerary) and as a producer specifically committed to grape-and-wine-tradition-influenced spirits production.

The product range reflects the wine-country production context. Napa Valley Distillery produces a substantial portfolio of grape-based spirits — Napa Valley Bourbon Cask-Finished Whiskey (finished in used Napa Valley wine casks), Napa Valley Grappa (distilled from grape marc from regional Napa Valley wineries), Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Brandy (the rare American single-varietal grape brandy program, produced from estate-Napa-Valley Cabernet Sauvignon), Napa Valley Vodka, Napa Valley Gin (a botanical gin built around foraged Napa Valley botanicals), Napa Valley Coffee Liqueur, and a rotating range of seasonal and limited bottlings tied to the surrounding wine-country harvest calendar. The grape-and-wine-influenced production approach gives Napa Valley Distillery an editorial identity distinct from craft distilleries operating outside major wine regions.

The downtown Napa visitor experience anchors the broader Napa Valley craft-spirits tourism circuit. The Stockton Street location puts the distillery within easy walking distance of the downtown Napa restaurant cluster, the Napa Riverwalk, and the broader downtown Napa hotel-and-tasting-room district. For visitors building a Napa Valley weekend that would otherwise be entirely wine-focused, Napa Valley Distillery is the essential craft-spirits anchor that expands the regional craft-beverage offering beyond the standard wine-only itinerary.