Sonoma Brothers Distilling

Sonoma Brothers Distilling is the Windsor, California craft spirits operation founded in 2012 by twin brothers Brandon and Christopher Matthies — and one of the most genuinely family-run craft distilleries in the broader Sonoma County wine country. Located at 7759 Bell Road in Windsor (the small Sonoma County town immediately north of Santa Rosa, in the heart of the broader Russian River Valley wine-tourism corridor), Sonoma Brothers occupies a working distillery and tasting room facility in the heart of one of California's most active year-round craft-beverage tourism economies. The Matthies brothers' commitment to small-batch production is operationally serious in a way most craft distillery marketing language only gestures toward. Both brothers handle essentially every step of the production pipeline themselves — mashing, fermenting, distilling, aging, bottling — and the visitor experience explicitly integrates the production-floor work into the tasting room experience. The signature on-site tasting walks guests through six curated spirits and pairs the structured tasting flight with the tactile ritual of hand-labeling and hand-packaging — putting the visitor inside the actual day-to-day finishing work of the operation rather than observing it from across a counter. The product range covers handcrafted vodka (the flagship — distilled from California-grown grain, the brand's most-distributed product), aromatic gin (a juniper-and-foraged-Sonoma-botanical-forward gin built …