Peach Street Distillery

Peach Street Distillery is the Palisade, Colorado craft operation that holds the distinction of being among the oldest continuously operating craft distilleries in the modern Colorado distilling revival — founded in 2005, predating the broader 2010s craft American distilling boom by roughly five years and putting Peach Street alongside Stranahan's (also 2004) as one of the founding-era reference points for the modern Colorado distilled spirits industry. Palisade sits in Colorado's Grand Valley on the Western Slope, the agricultural region in Mesa County famous for fruit production (particularly Palisade Peaches, the regional cultivar that anchors the town's agricultural identity and gives Peach Street its name) and for the wine-and-spirits agricultural economy that's grown around the valley's high-altitude, intense-sun growing conditions. The brand's geographic and agricultural identity is integral to the production approach. Peach Street uses locally sourced grain and fruit from Mesa County and Western Slope farms, with the production-side operation deliberately positioned within the broader Palisade agritourism economy that includes the surrounding peach orchards, wine vineyards, and fruit-and-cider operations. The brand's flagship fruit eau de vies (the unaged fruit brandies that anchor Peach Street's pre-spirits-trend product range) use locally-grown peaches, pears, and other Western Slope orchard fruit — making Peach Street one of the few American distilleries with a me…