June 2022
Lance Winters and Dave Smith
We’re heartbroken that we won’t be able to make our raspberry brandy this year, and we’re heartbroken for the farmers who lost their crop.
Since St. George Spirits was founded in 1982, we’ve produced a wide variety of spirits guided by our reverence for superlative raw materials. For 40 years, we've thoughtfully crafted our Raspberry Liqueur by sourcing extraordinary fruit from the Pacific Northwest.
Last year, the raspberry harvest in the Northwest was decimated due to extreme heat spikes over the summer. We spent months searching high and low to source raspberries that met our standards, but the quality of raspberries that we have always relied upon simply didn’t exist in 2021. We made the difficult decision to hold off on producing more Raspberry Liqueur until high-quality raspberries become available again.