I created Six13 with a simple idea in mind: the cocktails we already love still had room to surprise us.
The inspiration arrived unexpectedly during a trip to Greece for my 60th birthday. Sitting beneath the Acropolis, I found myself trying to rescue a not-so-great Manhattan when I tasted fig and apple together for the first time. And something clicked. The richness of fig. The brightness of apple. The way the flavors transformed the whiskey instead of competing with it.
In that moment, I could suddenly see the entire concept — the flavor profile, the bottle, the experience, the brand itself. By the end of the trip, I had filled pages of notebooks with ideas and sketches for what would eventually become Six13.
What followed became a four-year obsession. There were 113 handcrafted batches made in my kitchen. Endless late nights refining flavor, balance, and versatility. I worked alongside a master distiller trained in Scotland to help perfect what I couldn't achieve alone.
I sketched the bottle by hand and obsessed over every detail, even measuring bartenders' hands to ensure the bottle poured beautifully behind the bar. Because Six13 was never meant to be just another liqueur.
I wanted to create something refined but approachable. Complex enough for cocktail enthusiasts, effortless enough for anyone curious to experiment. A modern modifier designed to elevate the cocktails we already love while still leaving room for creativity and personal expression.
But somewhere along the way, Six13 became about far more than cocktails for me. A few years earlier, a routine mammogram led to a breast cancer diagnosis that quietly changed the way I experienced life. Treatment altered not only my body, but many of the rituals that once anchored my evenings — a glass of wine, a thoughtfully balanced cocktail, long conversations around a table with people I love.
And through that experience, I began thinking differently about flavor, balance, indulgence, and time itself.
Six13 became an expression of that perspective — a reminder to slow down, savor more, gather often, and create moments worth lingering in.
To me, the best cocktails have never really been about what's in the glass. They're about connection. Conversation. Celebration. Presence.
Six13 is an invitation into that world. A reminder to pour generously, stay curious, and make the familiar feel new again. And above all, to make every cocktail distinctly yours.
Before the first ounce of Six13 was perfected — before fig met apple, before sweet met tart — there was a different question: How should this feel in your hand?
Six13 was designed from the outside in, because how a bottle pours, rests, catches light, and lives on a back bar matters just as much as what's inside it. This bottle was never designed simply to sit on a shelf. It was engineered for nightly use, for rhythm, for ritual.
Every curve, dimension, and material choice serves a purpose.
Through 186 bartender surveys conducted worldwide — nearly one-third from women — we heard the same frustrations repeated again and again: too wide, too slick, too awkward to grip, too easy to over-pour. So we started measuring.
Our founder measured the purlicues — the natural webbing between thumb and forefinger — of more than 30 women bartenders. Those measurements were traced, studied, and translated directly into the bottle's shape. That space, so often overlooked, is where control is either gained or lost in a split second.
Women bartenders wrap and pour with ease — secure, balanced, never strained. Men instinctively grip from the shoulder and neck, where the geometry aligns effortlessly. Control improves. Waste disappears. The pour becomes precise. Six13 doesn't fight your hand. It works with it.
Standing 10.5 inches from base to stopper, Six13 occupies rare visual real estate. It stands taller than most modifier bottles without feeling oversized or impractical. On a crowded back bar or curated home collection, it reads as sculptural, confident, unmistakable.
Its proportions were never aesthetic guesswork. Every dimension was considered: tall enough to command attention, balanced enough to pour effortlessly, weighted so gravity works with you, not against you.
The alabaster-like exterior — stone-soft, off-white, timeless — encases crystal-clear glass windows on both the front and back of the bottle. Not simply to reveal the liquid. To let light pass through it.
Behind a bar, beneath warm shelving lights, or in a sunlit home setting, Six13 glows. The amber-cognac hue becomes part of the atmosphere itself. The bottle doesn't just sit in the space — it contributes to it.
Like the iconic bottles people refuse to throw away, Six13 was designed to be kept. Displayed. Repurposed. Remembered. When you reach for it, it feels less like learning something new — and more like using something you've always known.
Embossed into the bottle are two figures — a man and woman drawn toward one another in the moment just before a kiss. Subtle. Human. Intentional. That same tension exists within the liquid itself: fig and apple, sweet and tart, softness and structure.
You don't notice every detail at once. You're pulled closer. You look again. Then the liquid catches your eye. The bottle never shouts its story. It invites you into it.
Crowning the bottle is a real wood stopper, debossed with Six13's cartouche — inspired by old-world seals of craftsmanship, when quality was stamped, not assumed.
Even the mushroom silhouette serves a function. Its dimensions align naturally with the average male grasp, anchoring the pour with confidence and ease. The texture adds warmth. The weight signals quality. It doesn't simply close the bottle. It finishes the ritual.
Six13 was designed to be poured night after night without hesitation — to earn its place on the speed rail, the center shelf, or the home bar display reserved for favorite bottles.It respects the bartender's craft. Rewards the collector's eye. Understands the ritual of the pour.
