Frey Ranch Distillery Celebrates Its 10th Birthday With Key Expansion Moves

Some whiskey makers bill themselves as grain-to-glass distillers, but Frey Ranch Distillery in northwestern Nevada talks the talk and walks the walk. It harvests all its grains at the family ranch in Fallon, Nevada, and makes the whiskey at a distillery located smack in the middle of the property. Now Frey Ranch is marking its 10^th year in the distilling business by announcing that its whiskeys are becoming available in a wider number of states.

Five new states have been added to Frey’s distribution list, including Texas, Oregon, Arizona, Ohio, and Georgia. That’s in addition to its existing presence in California and its home state of Nevada, bringing Frey Ranch’s availability to seven markets. The whiskeys have also gained listings at 117 Albertson’s supermarket locations in Arizona and Nevada. Beyond that, Frey Ranch does online sales to 33 markets through its e-commerce site. Frey Ranch plans on selling a total of around 312,000 bottles of whisky this year.

This new rollout will be phased in over a 12-month period, and Frey Ranch said it will also expand to over 2,000 acres of farmland—up from the previous 1,500 acres—to boost production of its dent corn, winter wheat, rye, and barley crops. The distillery has also broken ground on a new 10,000-square-foot warehouse for whiskey maturation, with a capacity of 8,400 barrels. The distillery now will have 4 warehouses, all located on the ranch, for a total warehouse capacity of 26,565 barrels.

To mark this milestone Frey Ranch is planning a special anniversary edition to showcase its “slow-grown” grains—meaning grown locally and no efforts to speed production. The release will be timed to coincide with the company’s annual Whiskey Harvest Season, which begins in August and runs through October. Frey Ranch whiskeys have scored well with the Whisky Advocate tasting panel, with five of the seven we’ve reviewed scoring 90 points and above.