St George Pear Brandy

Aromatic ripe pear skin and white pepper spice open the nose, moving into notes of apple, caramel, oak, and cinnamon on the palate, a stunningly fruit forward, unsweetened brandy meant to capture the exact scent of a pear at peak ripeness.

St. George's flagship spirit since the distillery's 1982 founding, Pear Brandy uses roughly thirty pounds of aromatic, dry farmed, organic Bartlett pears, stems and leaves included, to fill a single 750 milliliter bottle. Founder Jörg Rupf, sometimes called the patron saint of American eau de vie, built the original recipe at a time when almost no one in the country understood what eau de vie even was