PLEASURE DISTILLERY

Since my first vision of the crooked smokestack above my great grandparent's distillery, I have been a distiller... My earliest childhood memories include sailing the warm Mediterranean and long family road trips in an old... Volkswagen bus traveling the coastline of Southern Greece. During the summer of 1976, we rolled up on the seaside vineyard where my grandmother was born. The ocean of rolling grapevines I was told of were all dry and long dead. An old man with a shotgun in his hand sat in front of the white-washed farmhouse. That was my Theo Taki and that summer we became partners in crime. Turns out our family, their vineyard, and their distillery were on the wrong side of a socialist movement brewing in the neighborhood last century. Taki's earliest childhood memories were of burning vines and a fire-bombed family distillery.

Also known as: Pleasure Distillery, LLC

Primary location: Laguna Beach United States