Dr. Renee Hernandez, owner of the first legal distillery in the Bronx after Prohibition, makes smooth rum, corn whiskey and spirit distilled from maple.
Renee Hernandez, the owner of Tirado Distillery, the first distillery in the Bronx since Prohibition, is a physician by day and a creative mixologist by night. Not only does he serve his community in the Bronx (which includes many Latino families) through his private internal medicine practice, but he serves up smooth concoctions of whiskey and rum.