We are proud to share our vinars da péra brought home a Double Gold and Best in Category and our vinars da plogas won a Gold in ADI's 2021 Judging of Spirits Competition!

The Alps are a long way from Missouri’s Rhineland, but on the Marthasville farm of Martin Weber and wife, Lynn DeLean-Weber, a special elixir brings the magic of the Old Word to Missouri…

When you think of brandy, you might visualize a gentleman with a mustache wearing a smoking jacket and swirling amber liquid around a snifter...

I usually pair soju with Korean food, but with dubu jorim, I suggest Vinars da Péra from Edelbrand Pure Distilling in Marthasville, Missouri…

Making fruit brandy is a family affair for Martin Weber and Lynn DeLean-Weber, the husband-and-wife team behind Edelbrand Pure Distilling...

One hundred years ago, the 18th Amendment set Prohibition in motion. For thirteen years, until its repeal in 1933, spirit seekers would visit back alleys and speakeasies to get their fix. It was during this time that the first iteration of the cocktail movement began...

Kansas City has a nostalgic attachment to its Prohibition-era glory days. Many modern bars have subsequently sought to recreate, through rose-colored glasses, the magic of that era...

The American Distilling Institute has awarded local Edelbrand Pure Distilling, located near Marthasville, with a Double Gold for its vinars da péra — Williams pear brandy — in its recent 2020 Judging of Craft Spirits...

We are proud to share our vinars da péra brought home a Double Gold in ADI's 2020 Judging of Spirits Competition! 

We’ve long been conditioned to accept as a canon law that expensive liquor is best sipped neat or on the rocks. It’s a natural, but outmoded notion—one that might be keeping you from finding your next favorite drink...

Nestled in the countryside outside of Marthasville, Missouri, Edelbrand is the epitome of the small, family-owned and -operated distillery. Edelbrand produces European-style fruit brandies utilizing traditional Swiss distilling methods...

Two area wineries and a distillery won medals at the 13th Annual Mid-American Wine Competition held at the Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) campus in Ankeny, Iowa...

Taste Edelbrand Pure Distilling's award-winning European-styled fruit brandies at Robin's Nest on the Katy Trail, Defiance, MO.

If you are new to European-styled fruit brandies, a world of nuanced flavors and aromas awaits you...

Edelbrand Pure Distilling, Marthasville, was recently recognized for two of its hand-crafted spirits in the 2019 Ultimate Spirits Challenge, an international spirits competi-tion. Edelbrand entered its vinars da vin, grape brandy infused with dill, and its vinars da plogas, plum brandy. Both were awarded points...

Bubbles and sorbet are like bread and butter: One elevates the other. A light and simple cocktail topped with sparkling wine is an ideal complement for this floral sorbet. Considering the neutral to slightly bitter, cucumber flavor of dosakai, using pear brandy from Edelbrand Pure Distilling in Marthasville, Missouri, as the cocktail’s base adds a hint of fruitiness as a foil...

A behind the scenes tour of Edelbrand Pure Distilling, the home of Edelbrand's award-winning vinars...

It’s cold, it’s snowy so you warm your insides and out sitting around a fire with friends sipping vinars. Say what?  Vinars is European-styled fruit brandy made right here in Missouri, and Edelbrand Pure Distilling is the tastemaker behind this beautiful spirit...

Edelbrand vinars da péra wins the Best Spirit Award in the 2018 Mid-American Wine Competition...

Edelbrand vinars da péra wins a gold medal in the 2018 Mid-American Wine Competition...

Edelbrand vinars tschereschas wins a silver medal in the 2018 Mid-American Wine Competition...

I visited Missouri wine country this past May and loved every moment of my three days there...

The Missouri Craft Distillers Guild was created to bring together our state’s craft distilleries and speak with a unified voice to spread the message that quality and local can go hand in hand...

Get Rob Vossmeyer talking about cooking, and you’ll soon understand his passion for distilling quality artisan spirits for 1220 Spirits in St. Louis...

The Washington Cup Competition has released its final results and out of a field of nearly 100 American made spirits, the Washington Cup judges have bestowed Washington Cups upon five spirits...

Located on a former horse farm an hour west of St. Louis just outside of Marthasville, Missouri Lynn DeLean-Weber, her husband Martin Weber and daughter Tess Delean are running a nano distillery producing award-winning European-styled fruit brandies in the Swiss tradition...

Delicately golden in color, with high-toned apple blossom and green apple skin conveying the purity of this brandy with hints of earthy pomace. Apples and honey on the palate...

Bright aromas of white pear and green apple and a touch of citrus. Steely texture on the palate lifts the flavors and underlines them. The spicy finish adds to the complexity of this delicious brandy...

For Martin Weber and Lynn DeLean-Weber, fruit brandy is a family affair. In 2013, the husband and wife team, who own Edelbrand Pure Distilling in Marthasville, Missouri, along with daughter Tess DeLean, decided to experiment with making the vinars... (p.33, 37)

In St. Louis, we have a couple of excellent monthly local food magazines.  Last month I did a small shoot for one of them, Feast Magazine, and the images are in the April issue.  I wanted to share a few more images from the session...

A couple months ago, I went to Marthasville, MO, to visit Edelbrand Pure Distilling. The business, which is owned by Lynn DeLean-Weber, Martin Weber, and their daughter Tess DeLean, makes vinars, or Swiss brandy...

The business is a passion project for husband-wife-and-daughter team Martin Weber, Lynn DeLean-Weber and Tess DeLean.  The trio draws on Weber’s Swiss heritage…

Locally made, Edelbrand European-style fruit brandy is handcrafted in the centuries-old Swiss-Romanisch tradition of single-batch distilling…

Who needs a plastic jug of icky eggnog mix and a bottle of rotgut? Certainly not Ladue News readers, for whom the magazine solicited expert recommendations….

Edelbrand Pure Distilling makes many varieties, but there is truly something special about the Vinars de Plogas, or plum brandy…

Closer to home, award-winning brandy is being made just outside of Marthasville, Missouri. Edelbrand Pure Distilling specializes in fruit brandies…(p.26-27)

The Washington Cup Competition has released its final results and out of a field of nearly 180 American made spirits, the Washington Cup judges have bestowed Washington Cups upon six spirits...

Outside of Marthasville, on a 20-acre farm, Martin Weber, wife Lynn DeLean-Weber and daughter Tess DeLean are making waves in the brandy business…

In the 2017 Mid-American Wine Competition, an event attracting entries from 18 states, Edelbrand vinars da plogas – plum brandy was awarded Best Spirit along with a Gold Medal. Edelbrand Pure Distilling also received two Silver Medals for its Edelbrand vinars d’apricosas – apricot brandy and Edelbrand vinars da vin – grape brandy infused with dill, and a Bronze for Edelbrand vinars da meila – apple brandy infused with plum...

Some folks are initially put off by eaux de vie and their various cousins because…