Dida's Distillery — Local services in Front Royal

Last month, I had the opportunity to do a tasting at the distillery in Rappahannock County, VA.

I selected to do the the 4 sample tasting and I chose to let the distillery choose between the gins and vodkas I should try.

Grapes from Rappahannock Cellars are used to create the spirits that are bottled and served. You can also purchase hand crafted cocktails based on your liquor preference.

Once you finish your distillery tasting, head next door to try the wines at...

Stop #2 from when my mom and I traveled the "Blue Ridge Whisky Wine Loop". Tried out a small flight of different spirits, choosing two gins, a vodka, and brandy. It's unfortunate due to VA laws you can't try much more after having a flight, as the spirits were all very good and I would've been highly interested in tasting some of the...

Distillery inside and associated with Rappahannock Cellars. All of the spirits are grape based. As of October they have a plain vodka, cinnamon vodka, brandy, gin, and a barrel rested gin. The grape base makes for an interesting mouthfeel. The gin is juniper forward with a citrus finish. The barrel rested gin was good and smoothed all of...