Spirits
Arkansas
Straight applejack from Northern California, honoring a family's Napa apple orchard.
- Founded
- 2013
- Founded by
- John Collins, Samantha Collins
Making it since
2013
Their story
Arkansas Black Applejack comes from Timberlane, a Northern California company started by husband and wife John and Samantha Collins. The brand began in 2013 with just two barrels.
The recipe honors Samantha's great-grandfather, Arthur "Skipper" Ford, who grew heirloom apples on Howell Mountain in Napa. His favorite variety was the deep red Arkansas Black, which gives the applejack its name.
How it's made
Each bottle holds the juice of about 25 pounds of fresh apples and nothing else. The apples are crushed, fermented into cider and distilled in a pot still, then the spirit ages two years in used French oak and a further year in new American bourbon barrels.
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The brandy is then finish in ex-bourbon barrels and bottled at 3 years of age. The result is a robust and assertive spirit that definitely falls into the applejack category and not the Calvados.
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Why we carry them
Applejack is one of America's oldest spirits, and this one has a real family story behind it. We think it is a great swap for bourbon in an Old Fashioned.
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