From farm to bottle: a crafted distillery making local and natural spirits.

Distillerie 168 grows on its own farm most of its cereals, fruits and herbs to be transformed on site into crafted spirits: Whisky, Gin, Vodka, pastis, etc. Distillerie 168 revives rooted traditions with a dash of innovative recipes, using local and costal plants.
During the one-hour visit, you will be toured through the various steps of making crafted spirits, from the cereals and aromatic herbs, until its transformation through maceration, fermentation and distillation.
The visit will end with the testing of 2023 batches from Distillerie 168.
 
Distillerie 168 promotes the local ecosystem in developing ethical and beneficial business model to produce and transform crafted and natural spirits.
Cereals, fruits and herbs production as well as the transformation at the farm fits into a wider architectural and landscape project to bring a similar attention to the circularity to those elements. Being located into “le pays de Retz”, Distillerie 168 emphasizes its linkages to the existing local landscape to preserve and support it..
Your visit will also touch upon Distillerie 168 choices and experiences to implement a circular economy business model. You will be introduced to some of the Distillerie 168 solutions to reuse, reduce, recycle or recover or redesign its resources. This in relation to the building renovation, but also to the production of the Distillerie 168 crafted spirits.