Prohibition Spirits Distillery
The limoncello started it, and the town still turns out to peel for it. Adults and kids get through 3,500 lemons in an afternoon, and the catalogue has since grown past fifty bottlings.1
Why go
The distillery says it was set up in 2008 as the first craft distillery in Sonoma, family owned and hands-on at every step.1 It began under the name HelloCello, making a lemon liqueur, and the range now runs from gins, vodkas, cellos and liqueurs through to whiskeys, rums, amaros and brandies.1 The tasting room is on the Sonoma Plaza.1
They also run a Drunken History Tour, a guided walk around the Plaza built on the saloons, outlaws and scandals that shaped the town, ending back at the spirits made here.1
Good to know
- The tasting room is on the Plaza, and the distillery also takes its Trav-L-Bar out to events and runs mixology classes and private after-hours bookings.1
- Two domains, one live. Use the hyphenated prohibition-spirits.com; the unhyphenated one would not open.
- The distillery names nobody. It calls itself family owned and operated and prints no founder and no distiller anywhere I read, so I am not going to invent one.
- No tasting fee or hours are published on the page I read.
Verdict
could-visit — The catalogue runs from gins, vodkas, cellos and liqueurs to whiskeys, rums, amaros and brandies, and you drink them in a tasting room on the Sonoma Plaza. They also run a guided walk through the plaza's saloons, outlaws and scandals that finishes back at the spirits. It calls itself Sonoma's first craft distillery, from 2008, and that is its own claim with nothing behind it but the claim. No writer has tasted the spirits in print, no fee or hour is published, and the distillery names no distiller anywhere I read.