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Wednesday, July 26, 2017
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Sip! Savor! Celebrate!

Sip!

Our spirits are extraordinary, whether enjoyed neat or in your favorite drink. Our award-winning Lone Elm Wheat Whiskey (95 rating, 2015 Ultimate Spirits Challenge Competition; Chairman's Trophy Winner) is excellent enjoyed in the classic Old Fashioned, Sazerac, or Manhattan.  Unadorned or in your favorite cocktail, Lone Elm Wheat Whiskey creates a refreshment of distinction.

The fine, subtly sweet flavor notes of our Lone Elm Texas Wheat Vodka makes for a vodka you may also enjoy sipping on the rocks or neat with a lemon twist.  While Our Vodka is fantastic on its own, it provides plenty of versatility for the home and professional mixologist in preparing craft cocktails.

Savor!

Our concept is simple:  high-quality, locally-grown winter wheat, Texas rain water, and time for Nature to perform her transformation; all combine to deliver a smooth spirit with quality and character.  Our Lone Elm Texas Wheat Whiskey has the bold flavor notes of dried cherry, dates, and black raisins, along with toasted wheat, honey, and vanilla.  Our 90-proof, 2-year minimum-aged, Straight Wheat Whiskey yields an amazing hearty, smooth finish that seems too good to be true!

While many aim for a vodka devoid of taste or character, Our Lone Elm Wheat Vodka highlights the unique flavor nuances that only a wheat-based vodka can deliver. 

Celebrate!

Whether honoring an occasion out with family and friends or at home relaxing, Lone Elm Wheat Spirits adds quality to those special moments.

                                                                                                                                                  

What you start with matters

 

It's all about the wheat.  The characteristic smooth quality that wheat delivers makes it all the way through to our final bottling.  When we started Five Points Distilling, we had already decided that wheat would give us the quality we were looking for in our spirits, and our distillery was custom-designed and built to produce wheat spirits. We soon partnered with a local farmer to obtain all of the soft, red winter wheat that we use in our distilling process.  All of our spent mash is donated back to this farmer for use as a high-protein livestock feed.  The cows love it!

Water is another obvious component in distilling spirits.  Our rain water collection and treatment system employs both UV purification and reverse osmosis. This purified water adds yet another appealing layer to the flavor of our spirits.

Our barrels are made of American White Oak sourced from the Ozark Mountains.  We use only new barrels to store whiskey.  Our used barrels are sold to other spirits makers who use them to make other categories of spirits or blends.

The Texas weather is another factor that plays a role in our Whiskey's maturation.  Our Whiskey matures quicker than in traditional whiskey-producing regions due to the wide temperature swings that are a common feature of our Texas Climate.

Our process, while rooted in traditional methods, employs the latest techniques and technology.  Rest assured, when you buy Lone Elm spirits, your're getting the best quality-combined with an environmentally conscious footprint!

   

 

  

 

 

Our Distillery

Lone Elm Texas Wheat Whiskey and Wheat Vodka are both handcrafted on site in our Forney, Texas plant.  Historically the area was settled in 1847 and named Union Hill; later the area became known as as Lone Elm.  At Five Points Distilling our Lone Elm Brand pays homage to the pioneering spirit of those early settlers.

Our privately-owned craft distillery is located on 10 acres at 8575 Union Hill Road.  This delightfully scenic area surrounded by small farms, small lakes, and ranches is convenient to the Dallas metro area.  Founded by five partners, our facility was designed and built from the ground up for production of wheat spirits.  With our American-made, 500-gallon copper pot still and 26-foot-tall stainless vodka column, our processes are specifically designed to coax out and enhance the unique tasting notes and qualities that only a wheat-based spirit and skilled distiller can deliver.

 

As a small-batch craft distiller, we monitor and check every batch we produce from grain to glass. It's that attention to every detail that won Lone Elm Wheat Whiskey a 95 point rating in the 2015 Ultimate Spirits Challenge as a Chairman's Trophy Winner.  As a 2-year straight whiskey, we were proud to be listed in the American Whiskey category along with the likes of Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve 20 Years Old; Thomas H. Handy Sazerac Straight 6 Years Old; and George Dickel No. 12.  Where Lone Elm is concerned, time is on our side!

We look forward to personally sharing the Lone Elm experience with you upon the opening of our new tasting room at our plant location in early January 2017 (if not before). Please check with us or visit our Lone Elm Spirits Facebook page for updates on events, tasting room and tours, barrel clubs, and where to purchase our award-winning products. Also, keep Lone Elm in mind and on hand to enhance your holiday gatherings or any worthy occasion!