"My roots lie in Ikaria, a beautiful island in the Aegean archipelago of Greece [and home of the Atheras mountain range] where my parents practiced distilling as a passionate hobby. My father experimented with local herbs, incorporating flavors like sage, pennyroyal, chamomile and ditanny, infusing them into high-proof grappa and creating a range of exquisite herbal elixirs. And my mother crafted liqueurs such as nocino, sour cherry, myrto and limoncello using the same base ingredients."
"I'm proud to say I'm a second-generation distiller,"
"liquid art,"
Atheras Spirits is a New York–based, independently owned micro-distillery co-founded by Ektoras Binikos and Simon Jutras, located inside Bitter Monk in Brooklyn's Industry City. The initial six-bottle launch features amari and liqueurs crafted from more than 300 wild-foraged botanicals sourced with help from ethnobotanist Elizabeth Kontou and meadow specialist Tama Matsuoka Won. Binikos draws on second-generation distilling roots from Ikaria and family herbal traditions, and he frames the products as "liquid art" inspired by tastes from childhood, art history, philosophy, literature and music. Early iterations began during Covid while operating a Harlem bar.
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