Laird & Company

Vintage Virginia Apples was founded in 2000 by the Shelton family. In our orchard, we grow a variety of tree fruits that are becoming increasingly rare. Many of these are older varieties that have fallen into obscurity or just do not fit the needs of today’s commercial marketing and distribution systems. Cast aside in the search for perfectly saleable, shippable Read more...

Founded in 2010, Ragged Branch was born of Alex Toomy’s desire to establish a bourbon distillery in the Ragged Mountains outside Charlottesville, Virginia with his friends and colleagues, Chris Sarpy and Russell Nance. Wanting to learn from the best, the partners consulted with bourbon artisan Dave Pickerell, who taught them the time-honored, old-school methods of producing straight bourbon whiskey. From Read more...

Our story is the story of two friends, Tim Edmond and Dan Potter. The short version is that we are college buddies who shared a love of homebrewing beer, which chance and good fortune transformed into a passion for craft cider. Our path to cidermaking was roundabout, but cider embodied the perfect confluence of our interests in agriculture, fermentation, and Read more...