Now, the distillery at Mount Vernon has been rebuilt to exacting historical specifications. Built using plans for the 1797 distillery on the footprint of the original building after a five-year ...

It was history that got me interested in the peach brandy coming out of George Washington's reconstructed distillery at Mount Vernon. Hugely popular in Colonial times, peach brandy was one of the ...

The Department of Interior wouldn’t be ... For example, in 1997, Mount Vernon archaeologists began excavating a site that held a distillery—the single largest in the country in the late ...

Mount Vernon is also celebrating the 250th anniversary of the gristmill, which is located right next to the distillery. “The mill next door grinds the grains, so this is really an interesting ...

And yet, his former home, now museum, Mount Vernon, is home to one of the oldest whiskey distilleries in the United States. Washington's distillery produced whiskey from 1799 through the early ...

Well, sort of. When it’s made in the United States, specifically at George Washington’s Distillery and Gristmill in Virginia near Mount Vernon and not in Scotland, where all scotch comes from ...

At the time of his death in 1799, Washington ran one of the largest distilleries in the U.S. Since the distillery resumed operations a decade ago, Mount Vernon has produced and sold tens of ...

WASHINGTON — The sun was out — and so were the kilts — Tuesday morning at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Distillery. Scotland’s top distillers — including Bill Lumsden from The ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. George Washington s estate on the Potomac River hasn t been home to a working distillery for about two centuries, but that changed Tuesday as whiskey makers toiled on the ...

Sip President Washington's original whiskey recipe at Mount Vernon's distillery. April 19, 2009 — -- Revolutionary War hero. Father of our country. Master distiller? George Washington boasted ...