Miami’s cultural geography is restless. As Wynwood fully matures into a mainstream, heavily developed commercial district, the city’s creative center of gravity is quietly migrating north. Those looking for genuine craft and emerging authenticity are now heading to Little River.
Here, tucked away on a nondescript stretch of Northwest 71st Street, I found an ambitious new establishment anchoring the neighborhood’s evolution: The Little River Distillery.
From the outside, it’s an unassuming warehouse. But step through its doors, and surprisingly you realize how serious this venture is. “We are a turnkey manufacturing plant and fully operational distillery, as well as the only rum aging house in Miami,” co-founder partner Carlos Espasas tells me as we tour the distillery…