Non-Alcoholic Spirit
Wilderton
Oregon distillery making distilled (not extracted) non-alcoholic spirits. Lustre and Earthen are botanical, complex, and treated like craft spirits by serious bars.
- Type
- Non-Alcoholic Spirit
- ABV
- 0.0%
- Calories
- 0 per 1.5oz serving (Lustre & Earthen); Bittersweet Aperitivo 30 per 1.5oz
- Format
- Bottles (750ml / ~25.4 fl oz)
- Made in
- Hood River, Oregon, USA
- Since
- 2019
Wilderton (formally Wilderton Aperitivo Co.) was a non-alcoholic botanical spirits brand founded in 2019 by Brad Whiting, a liquor-industry veteran, and Seth O'Malley, a distiller. Originally producing in Portland, the company opened in Hood River, Oregon what is widely credited as the first dedicated non-alcoholic distillery and tasting room in the United States in 2023, near the banks of the Columbia River.
Rather than imitating gin, whiskey or tequila, Wilderton built complex zero-proof spirits from scratch using vacuum distillation of water-soluble botanicals to capture aroma and flavor without alcohol. The core lineup was Lustre — a bright, citrusy and floral expression built on bitter orange, tarragon and lavender — and Earthen, its darker, spicier and smokier counterpart featuring white peppercorn, lapsang souchong and cardamom; a Bittersweet Aperitivo (grapefruit, gentian, orange blossom, sandalwood, rosemary, angelica) followed. Lustre and Earthen are 0.0% ABV with zero calories per serving and contain no added sugar, color or preservatives; both are gluten-free and vegan-friendly.
Note: In January 2026 the founders announced that Wilderton Aperitivo was winding down operations after roughly seven years, citing a "historically difficult" funding and financing environment. The Hood River tasting room had closed at the end of August 2025, and the company did not file for bankruptcy. The brand should be considered discontinued.
Wilderton lineup
- Lustre
- Earthen
- Bittersweet Aperitivo
Recognition: Bartender Spirits Awards 2022 — Silver Medal (Earthen, 88 pts)
“Wilderton Aperitivo, which made one of the best NA spirits on the market, announced that it is closing its distillery”— Jonah Flicker, Robb ReportRobb Report →
Where to drink Wilderton
15 verified venues pour Wilderton.
Cheeky & Dry
Phinney Ridge
Cheeky & Dry is Seattle's first and only fully alcohol-free bottle shop, a 750-square-foot family-owned store at 6120 Phinney Ave N opened in November 2023 by Kirstin and Yura Vracko. Kirstin started it after her husband went to rehab for alcohol use and she stopped drinking in solidarity with him, looking for products that would carry her through the ritual of a drink at night — she has said she built the shop she wished existed. Its own rule is absolute: every bottle is 0.5% ABV or less. The catalogue runs to roughly 250 products across non-alcoholic spirits (gin, whiskey, agave, aperitivo), wines still and sparkling, beers, ready-to-drink cocktails, mixers and bitters, with brands including Pathfinder, Three Spirit, Little Saints, Parch, Aplos, Free Spirits, Leilo and Opius. There is a counter for tasting samples before you buy. NOTE FOR ANYONE AVOIDING ALL INTOXICANTS: we checked the full catalogue and found no THC at all, but it does stock kava products, one kava-and-kratom elixir, and one CBD coffee at 25mg per serving.
Rosette
Rainier Beach
Rosette is a small worker-owned bar and restaurant at 9262 57th Avenue S in Rainier Beach, opened in 2025 by members of the collective behind Jude's Old Town, Seattle's first worker-owned bar and restaurant, two doors down. It focuses on non-alcoholic cocktails, natural and biodynamic wine and small bites, and the room is petite — a rectangular space just under eleven feet wide. Worker-owner Mark Paschal's reason for building it is the clearest statement of the case we have found: for too long, people who don't drink alcohol have been treated as an afterthought in bar spaces, and at Rosette thoughtfully constructed non-alcoholic cocktails are meant to shine and offer a true bar experience without alcohol. The N/A Cocktails list is flat $15: In Bloom (Figlia Fiore, Lumette Bright Light, lemon, rose blossom, Woody's non-alcoholic sparkling), Minimal Intervention (DHOS vodka, lemon, strawberry-mint), Refined Prop Comic (Lumette LumRum, Ghia, lemon, orange-carrot) and Spirited Away (Free Spirits bourbon, Pathfinder, vermouth, bitters). PLEASE NOTE: a fifth, Pine for the Days, contains KAVA — a mildly sedative plant — under the same non-alcoholic heading. Happy hour 3–6pm; open Wednesday to Saturday.
The Zero Co.
Poncey-Highland
The Zero Co. is Atlanta's first dedicated non-alcoholic bottle shop, opened in December 2022 in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood by Cory and Malory Atkinson, the husband-and-wife team behind nearby Elemental Spirits Co. The shop grew out of the rapidly growing zero-proof section at Elemental and stocks more than 500 non-alcoholic products — spirit alternatives, de-alcoholized wines, NA beers, and ready-to-drink cans — alongside locally made shrubs, vinegars, bitters, and elixirs. A bar-cart sample station lets customers taste before buying, and the space hosts tastings and events. Carried brands include Ghia, Seedlip, Lyre's, Wilderton, Ritual Zero Proof, De Soi, Three Spirit, Free Spirits, Athletic Brewing, and more. As co-owner Malory Atkinson put it, the goal was a "warm and welcoming" space for all kinds of drinkers and non-drinkers.
Abigail Hall
Downtown
Abigail Hall is a 40-seat cocktail bar on the ground floor of the Woodlark Hotel downtown, set in the 1907 Cornelius Hotel's former Ladies Reception Hall and named for suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway. Its menu carries a standalone "No-Proof Cocktails" section plus further spirit-free drinks built on zero-proof spirits such as Pathfinder, Wilderton Citrus, and Sanbitter.
Bar Benjamin
Melrose / Fairfax District
Bar Benjamin is a second-floor craft cocktail bar that opened in May 2025 above The Benjamin Hollywood on Melrose Avenue, from The Hundreds co-founder Ben Shenassafar with partners Jared Meisler and Kate Burr. The cocktail program — developed by Jason Lee (n/soto, Baroo) and beverage director Chad Austin — is known for elaborate, food-driven drinks, and the non-alcoholic list is a genuine priority rather than an afterthought: Austin, who is five years sober, builds the zero-proof cocktails with the same rigor as the full menu. Named NA drinks on the current menu include the Smiley Face (a mango-margarita riff with yellow bell pepper syrup, fermented mango, acid-adjusted pineapple, Wilderton Citrus Bitter, and Optimist Smoky), plus Aura Farm, Bangkok Dangerous, and Tepache Bird. The room is intimate and reservation-friendly, with walk-in bar seating.
Bar Iris
Russian Hill / Polk Gulch
Bar Iris is a Japanese-influenced craft cocktail bar at 2310 Polk Street in Russian Hill / Polk Gulch, opened in early 2022 as the sibling to chef David Yoshimura's Michelin-starred restaurant Nisei next door. The program leans on Japanese spirits and long, seasonal ingredient lists, and its non-alcoholic offering is unusually deep: the bar keeps a standalone alcohol-free menu that currently runs nine N/A cocktails named for Japanese places, from the Kyoto — a non-alcoholic martini of Amass and Dhōs N/A spirits with Aplos Arise, narazuke brine and tsukemono — to the Yakushima (Okinawa purple yam, Wilderton Earthen, kalamansi, li hin mui), alongside a bottle list of dealcoholized sake, sparkling wine and riesling. Several cocktails on the main list are also marked as available non-alcoholic, and The San Francisco Standard has reported that more than half its cocktails can be made without alcohol.
Cavaña
Mission Bay
Cavaña is a Latin American rooftop bar on the seventeenth floor of the LUMA Hotel in Mission Bay, with a dance floor, a DJ and skyline views over the ballpark. It trades to midnight on weeknights and 1am on Friday and Saturday. The alcohol-free drinks are printed under a spirit-free heading on the main cocktail menu and run to six: Maracuyá, built on Almave agave spirit and Wilderton Citrus with aperitivo, passionfruit agave and lime; Phoney Mezcal Negroni, with a Peruvian agave distillate, Pathfinder amaro and Abstinence blood orange aperitif; Guava Fresca; Michelada-Nada, made with non-alcoholic cerveza and the house michelada mix; Chicha Morada, the Peruvian purple corn punch; and Bananito, spiced banana oat milk with a cold brew float.
Copra
Fillmore / Lower Pac Heights
Copra is a coastal South Indian restaurant that opened in 2023 in San Francisco's Fillmore / Lower Pac Heights neighborhood, led by Michelin-starred chef Srijith "Sri" Gopinathan, drawing on the cuisines of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Alongside a full cocktail and wine program, Copra runs a serious zero-proof menu that mirrors its cocktail list, building drinks from the same Southeast Asian-leaning pantry — coconut yogurt, makrut lime, star anise, lemongrass, and orange blossom — rather than treating non-alcoholic options as an afterthought. Several of the zero-proof cocktails are built on non-alcoholic spirits including Wilderton Lustre and Vibrante NA vermouth. Named pours include the Orange Ruby (lemongrass, Wilderton Lustre, Vibrante, orange blossom, tonic, makrut lime), the Salty City (coconut yogurt, cucumber, salt, black garlic, lemon), and the Tiger's Eye (cinnamon, star anise, lemon, Wilderton Lustre, bittersweet aperitivo). The room is a tropical, design-forward space.
Death & Co Los Angeles
Arts District, DTLA
Death & Co Los Angeles is the first West Coast location of the cocktail brand founded in New York's East Village on New Year's Eve 2006, and it opened in the Arts District of downtown Los Angeles at the end of 2019 from the Death & Co team of David Kaplan, Alex Day and Devon Tarby with Ravi DeRossi — the same group behind the Normandie Club, Bibo Ergo Sum and the Walker Inn. The main room runs a seasonal menu organised into six sections, from the lightest and most refreshing through the most spirituous, with zero-proof drinks treated as one of those sections rather than an appendix; a separate walk-up Standing Room bar operates Thursday to Saturday. The zero-proof list currently holds three built cocktails at $16–$18 on genuine non-alcoholic spirits including Seedlip, Ritual, Giffard and Wilderton, backed by non-alcoholic wine and beer from NON, Lyre's, Athletic and Suntory.
Hale Pele
Grant Park
Hale Pele is a renowned Northeast Portland tiki bar with a robust spirit-free section built on fresh-squeezed juices, house syrups, and NA spirits like Wilderton. Non-alcoholic options include tiki-style drinks such as the Jumanji and the Saturn Return, plus alcohol-free versions of its tiki classics.
Pacific Standard
Central Eastside (KEX Hotel)
Pacific Standard is the ground-floor cocktail bar of the KEX Portland hotel in the Central Eastside, opened in October 2022 by acclaimed bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler (formerly of Clyde Common) and partner Benjamin Amberg. The menu is built around radical transparency: the ABV of every drink is printed on the menu, running from 0% all the way to a 39% House Old Fashioned, so guests can make informed choices. A dedicated "Alcohol-Free Cocktails" section anchors the non-alcoholic program, alongside a "Low-Proof Cocktails on Draft" list and zero-proof beverages including kombucha, Leitz "Eins Zwei Zero" wine, and BERO non-alcoholic beer. The bar pours its own house-made non-alcoholic spirit and uses Wilderton Lustre in zero-proof cocktails like the Tiger Balm (pineapple, lime) and the Wandering Path (grapefruit, lemon, egg white). Food spans oysters, steak frites, and Morgenthaler's famed chocolate chip cookies.
Victoria Bar
Humboldt
Victoria Bar is a mostly-vegan restaurant and cocktail bar in North Portland's Humboldt neighborhood and an early local champion of the spirit-free movement — roughly a third of its cocktail menu is dedicated to non-alcoholic drinks, built on NA spirits like Wilderton, plus Athletic non-alcoholic beer.
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Frequently asked about Wilderton
Wilderton is a non-alcoholic spirit made in Hood River, Oregon, USA with 0.0% ABV. Oregon distillery making distilled (not extracted) non-alcoholic spirits. Lustre and Earthen are botanical, complex, and treated like craft spirits by serious bars.
Distilled botanical spirits — Lustre bright, citrusy and floral (bitter orange, tarragon, lavender, lemongrass, bay leaf, black tea); Earthen dark, spicy and smoky (white peppercorn, lapsang souchong, cardamom).
0 per 1.5oz serving (Lustre & Earthen); Bittersweet Aperitivo 30 per 1.5oz. Always check the label for the exact figure on the specific product and serving size.
0.0% ABV. Formulations can vary by market — always check the label for the exact figure.
We list 15 verified venues pouring Wilderton, across Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Atlanta. Wilderton is also widely available to buy online and at non-alcoholic bottle shops.
Other non-alcoholic spirits worth trying include Seedlip, Lyre's, Ritual Zero Proof, Free Spirits, Pavari 17, Martini. Each has its own profile — browse them to compare.