Philadelphia has always had a talent for turning history into something worth raising a glass to. Art in the Age Old Baldy Whiskey — the newly released Old Baldy Spiced Apple Whiskey from the beloved Philadelphia spirits brand Art in the Age — has arrived at thirteen Fine Wine & Good Spirits locations across the Greater Philadelphia area, priced at $31.99, and it brings with it one of the more genuinely Philadelphian backstories you’ll find on any bottle in a state store.
The Story Behind Art in the Age Old Baldy Whiskey
The spirit is named after General George Meade’s legendary Civil War horse — a gray warhorse that survived battle after harrowing battle, outlived his famous general, and whose mounted remains are still on display at the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum right here in Philadelphia. That local museum connection gives Old Baldy a hometown tie unlike anything else on the state store shelf. For Art in the Age, the choice of name is entirely in keeping with the brand’s founding philosophy: a belief that the best spirits don’t just taste good — they carry a story worth knowing.
Art in the Age has embodied that philosophy since opening as a pioneering bottle shop in Old City, Philadelphia, where it championed craft producers and unconventional spirits long before either was fashionable in this city. The brand earned national recognition through ROOT Liqueur, a modern revival of colonial-era flavors that was at once deeply researched and deeply delicious. That legacy of historically rooted, flavor-forward thinking lives on today in the current lineup, now available for the first time across Pennsylvania Fine Wine & Good Spirits.
What Art in the Age Old Baldy Whiskey Tastes Like
Old Baldy Spiced Apple Whiskey starts with a base of aged Canadian corn whiskey, infused with whole cinnamon, clove, and allspice, then blended with 100% real apple juice — resulting in a 70-proof spirit the brand describes, without much exaggeration, as grandma’s homemade apple pie in a bottle.
On the nose it delivers mulled spice with prominent clove and cinnamon; on the palate, baked apple streusel and warm brown spice; the finish is brisk and lightly spiced in a way that carefully avoids cloying sweetness. The profile is built equally for easy sipping and for cocktail versatility — an apple cider hot toddy, a spiced whiskey sour, or simply over a single large ice cube on a Philadelphia evening that finally remembers it is autumn.
Distilled at Tamworth Distilling in New Hampshire — a 110-acre operation in the White Mountains whose accolades include Food & Wine’s Innovator of the Year and Esquire’s Spirit of the Year — and bottled at Art in the Age’s Pennsylvania facility, Old Baldy is available in the 750 mL format at $31.99. The TDNH designation on the neck label is a quiet nod to that New Hampshire distilling heritage, worn as a badge of craft on every bottle.
Art in the Age Old Baldy Whiskey Joins the Full PA State Store Lineup
Old Baldy’s arrival puts three Art in the Age expressions on the Pennsylvania state store shelf simultaneously. It joins Dunce Straight Bourbon Whiskey — a five-year-old, column-distilled spirit built from 75% corn, 21% rye, and 4% malted barley — and Siege of Wolves Spiced Rum, the direct spiritual successor to ROOT Liqueur that carries the Old City spirit of discovery forward in a rum glass.
Together, the three bottles represent a genuine cross-section of what Art in the Age does best. “With Old Baldy joining Dunce and Siege of Wolves in Fine Wine & Good Spirits,” said founder Steven Grasse, “Pennsylvania drinkers can now access a broader snapshot of what Art in the Age has always stood for — heritage, flavor, and spirits with a point of view.”
That point of view has always been distinctly Philadelphian, and the expanded presence of Art in the Age across PA Fine Wine & Good Spirits is more than a distribution milestone. It is a homecoming for a brand that was born in this city, shaped by its history, and is now returning to its shelves in style. Find Art in the Age Old Baldy Whiskey and the full Art in the Age lineup at select Pennsylvania Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores or at artintheage.com.
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