Brandihouse in Cobble Hill, Vancouver Island, Canada | Tours and Safaris

Welcome to the Brandihouse, Cobble Hill, Canada. Our distillery, Merridale Brandiworks, is housed in a unique arts and crafts style building we have carefully designed to showcase both our distillation process and our products that come of it.

Built in the early months of 2007, the Brandihouse now hosts exclusive Tours and tastings for private groups. On these Tours you’ll not only see the craft of distilling in action, you’ll also have the unique opportunity to taste the unfinished (but extraordinarily delicious) goods directly from the still and barrels, followed by a tasting of finished products at our granite tasting bar.

Generation after generation of cider makers in Northern France have used distinctive varieties of cider apples to craft world-renowned brandy called Calvados. Merridale, as Canada’s premier producer of craft cider from English and French cider apples, is following that tradition and craftsmanship. While on our Tours of Normandy and South West England, we sampled some of the worlds finest cider brandies made from unique varieties of cider apples. Many of those varieties can be found in our Cobble Hill Valley orchard, so we decided that we would strive to make North America’s best Calvados-style brandy. After years of study and research, we have embarked on our newest passion, the Brandiworks at Brandihouse  Merridale.