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This one started with a question from our Beverage Director: could we make a house cherry brandy base for a maraschino liqueur he wanted to produce for our cocktail program?

The answer sent us back to a ingredient we'd tested more than a decade ago during kitchen R&D, before we ever opened — a concentrated cherry infusion syrup from Shoreline Fruit in Traverse City, made as a byproduct of their dried cherry process and packed with genuine Michigan cherry character. We never found the right use for it then. This was it.

We fermented the syrup and double-distilled it into a cherry brandy that came out delicate, floral, and herbal — with more bite than the 84 proof suggests. Clean cherry on the nose, something almost botanical underneath, and a finish that lingers.

The resulting spirit went three directions: some into barrel to age as cherry brandy for a future release, some toward the maraschino liqueur our bar team is now making in-house, and 264 bottles here.

$35 per bottle. 100 available online.

Cherry Eau de Vie — Cherry Brandy 42% ABV | 750ml