Sapelo celebrates the fragile beauty of Georgia’s Sapelo Island and the Saltwater Geechee community who calls it home.
In partnership with the nonprofit agency, Save Our Legacy Ourselves (SOLO), a percentage of sales will support community-led efforts to re-establish their cultivation of the Sapelo Sour—oranges first brought to the island from Spain in the 1600s.
Every bottle is a toast to heritage, legacy, and economic opportunity.
Aperitivo W/ Sapelo Sour oranges
11% ABV
BRIGHT | HERBAL | CITRUS
Sapelo celebrates the fragile beauty of Georgia’s Sapelo Island and the Saltwater Geechee community who call it home. In partnership with the nonprofit agency, Save Our Legacy Ourself (SOLO), a percentage of sales will support community-led efforts to reestablish their cultivation of the Sapelo Sour—oranges first brought to the island from Spain in the 1600s.
Join with us at the Eastern Rooftop on June 29th from 6-9pm for an evening of Spritz, snacks, and celebration.
Sapelo is a barrier island tucked along Georgia’s Golden Isles, the home of the Saltwater Geechee community, who is a distinct subgroup of the Gullah-Geechee.
SOLO is a Sapelo-based nonprofit agency—the work of historian and activist Cornelia Walker Bailey—now led by Maurice Bailey, her son. SOLO exists to preserve the culture and traditions of the Saltwater Geechee by investing in agricultural and economic opportunity for the people of Sapelo.
The Sapelo Sour is a Georgia heirloom crop descended from the Seville Orange, first brought to the island in the 1600s. These oranges are the gold standard citrus for bitter spirits like aperitivos. Presently, there remains only a handful of these trees growing wild on Sapelo Island.
An aperitivo is a traditional pre-meal drink, designed to stimulate the appetite before dinner. The phrase itself refers both to a light, bittersweet alcoholic beverage and to the social act of gathering in the late afternoon: where happy hour meets golden hour.
This aperitivo welcomes you to that distinctly Southern invitation to slow down as a means to catch up, to connect, to savor, and to embrace the moment in front of you.
Creature Comforts has partnered with SOLO to establish the first-ever Sapelo Sour orchard, an investment to both rejuvenate the existing orange population while advancing SOLO’s mission to preserve Saltwater Geechee culture.
