Taste the Neighborhoods: Five Spirits on a Treme Distillery Floor
The house names its spirits for New Orleans neighborhoods. This forty-five minute tour walks the production floor and ends with a tasting of five.
Seven Three Distilling makes its spirits in a metal-sided building on North Claiborne Avenue, in the neighborhood it calls Old Treme. The name comes from the seventy-three neighborhoods of New Orleans, and the bottles are named the same way: Gentilly, St. Roch, Bywater, Marigny.
The tour runs forty-five minutes and ends with five pours. That is short for a distillery visit. What fills the time is the production area itself, with the mash tun, the bottling line, and the still standing in the same room you walk through.
One booking covers the walk-through and all five pours. The five spirits come with the ticket. Gratuity does not.
The listing fixes the tour at forty-five minutes, though reviewers more often describe it running closer to an hour. The tour is rated 4.9 from 411 combined reviews.
Seven Three Distilling Tour and TastingForty-five minutes on the production floor at 301 N Claiborne Avenue, closing with a tasting of five Seven Three spirits. Ages 21 and over.www.viator.comWhat the Forty-Five Minutes Covers
The walk opens with how distilling grew up alongside the other pleasures that made this city famous, then turns to the history of Old Treme. The operator's own account of the tour ties those neighborhood histories to the labels on the bottles. After that it is the production area.
You see the mash tun, the bottling line, and a double pot still built to the distillery's own design. Barrels sit racked along the wall, each head carrying a DSP marking.
This booking is the introductory walk-through. The distillery also runs longer sessions built around aged spirits, private tours with the distiller, and bottle fills you cork yourself. Those are separate bookings, and none of them is part of this ticket.
Finding 301 North Claiborne
The building is low and metal-sided, with the distillery's name painted across the front wall in letters readable from the far side of the street. The number 301 sits above the doors, at the corner of Claiborne and Bienville.
Claiborne runs beneath the elevated interstate along this stretch, and the block around it is warehouses and workshops. Look for the painted wall. Travelers coming from the French Quarter describe a short rideshare over.
Everyone meets at the distillery. There is no hotel pickup. The tour starts and ends at 301 North Claiborne.
The Tasting, and Who Can Take It
Five spirits from the house range close the tour, poured where they are made.
Every traveler must be twenty-one or older. This listing has no bookable ticket for anyone younger, so there is no reduced fare to add for a teenager in the group. The distillery asks to see identification, so carry it.
Gratuity sits outside the ticket price. The horseshoe bar out front pours house cocktails after the tour, bought separately. Bottles are sold full size, which catches out travelers flying home with a carry-on only.
Booking
Confirmation is instant, and bookings stay open right up to the start time, which leaves same-day tickets on the table.
- Full refund if you cancel at least 24 hours ahead
- Inside 24 hours the booking is not refundable
- The booking form takes up to sixteen travelers on one reservation. The listing does not say how many people the room holds
- Guided in English
The same space takes private events, arranged separately from this tour.
Forty-five minutes is a short stop, and that is the useful part of it. Stay for a cocktail at the bar, or walk back out onto Claiborne with five tastes behind you and the rest of the afternoon still open.