A Dallas Distillery Where You Smell the Gin's Botanicals First
One warehouse on Chancellor Row holds the garnish garden, the stills, and the lounge where you taste.
Dallas keeps its distilleries in plain warehouses. This one sits on Chancellor Row, under a steel frame shaped like a gin bottle that lights up green at night. The tour is built on one idea: smell a spirit's ingredients before you drink it. It opens at what the distillery calls its garnish garden, planted with the botanicals that end up in the bottle.
What reaches the glass is a gin the distillery builds on twelve real plants, grapefruit and lime peel over Italian juniper, with hibiscus, cacao nibs, Texas pecans and sarsaparilla root underneath. The bourbon arrives by a different route. It is sourced at two years old, then finished here for six months with micro-doses of twenty botanicals in the barrel. Pours come in a Glencairn, the tapered glass used for nosing whisky, and two cocktails follow, which the distillery pairs one gin, one bourbon.
1-Hour Distillery Tour and Tasting in DallasTwo-hour booking at New Artisan Distillery on Chancellor Row. Tasting plus two cocktails, ages 21 and up, English-language guide, shared groups of up to 30.www.viator.comBehind the Lounge, a Working Production Floor
Past the lounge the building opens onto the working floor: stainless fermenters in a row, a copper pot still with its swan neck, slim column stills, and oak barrels stacked along the walls beside pallets of finished cases. A guide walks the line and explains which vessel does what. The stop runs long or short depending on how many questions the group asks.
One Cocktail Before the Stills, One After
The lounge runs on green pendant lights, low seating and a marble bar, with a Steinway grand piano and contemporary art by JM Rizzi. The first cocktail lands here before the walk, the second after it. A merchandise room sells bottles at the end, two at most.
Everyone in the Group Has to Be 21
The booking takes adults only. Everyone in the party has to be 21, and this product sells no other ticket type. A distillery floor otherwise reads like somewhere you could bring a teenager. Groups cap at 30 travelers, the guide works in English, and the building is wheelchair accessible with service animals allowed. Buying a bottle calls for a driver's license.
Block Two Hours Even Though It Is Called One
The booking holds a 120-minute slot while the itinerary puts the guided portion at up to one hour, depending on questions. Both numbers hold, and the gap between them is the lounge: a welcome drink before the walk, a second cocktail after it. Plan the afternoon around two hours on Chancellor Row.
The address is 8202 Chancellor Row, and the marker is the steel gin bottle on the roof, lit green after dark. Everyone meets at the tasting lounge and there is no pickup service. Booking closes 120 minutes ahead of the start time, each reservation is confirmed by hand at the distillery, and a full refund calls for 24 hours' notice. Tickets scan from a phone or a printout, one per booking. The lounge is where the visit opens and where it ends, second cocktail in hand.