Noble Cut Distillery sits tucked into the back of an industrial park in Gahanna, Ohio, just northeast of Columbus, the kind of nondescript building you wouldn’t stumble across by accident. Founded in 2014 by Tony Guilfoy and business partners including Ben Vause, it took until 2018 for licensing, construction, and production to come together before Noble Cut started selling spirits. The name comes from the distilling process itself: the “noble cut” refers to the hearts cut, the most desired portion of a distillate once a distiller separates out the unwanted alcohol, and that hearts cut is the only spirit used in any Noble Cut product. The distillery’s roots go back further than 2014, though. Tony’s maternal grandfather made wine, whiskey, and moonshine during Prohibition, and his grandmother brought a six-generation family limoncello recipe from Italy that’s since become one of Noble Cut’s signature products.