Lore

 

Planchette is career bartender, Haley Saucier and hospitality professional, Grant Carey. As a true family endeavor, we're occasionally assisted by Haley's mother and sister.

We started this project as a way to bring quality drink ingredients to people, while utelizing parts of fruits and vegitables that are often thrown away. Hospitality is the second largest consumer waste producing industry, and we're aiming to do our part in redirecting things from bars and restaurants to the glass, rather than the landfill.

The avocado pits used to make our orgeat come from restaurants making guacamole and avocado toast. We collect the pits, rather than those spaces tossing them. The lime zest in our grenadine comes from limes that are then juices so ever part is used. Our strawberry leaf shrub is made from the tops of the berries we cut off when making our strawberry syrup.

In addition, we also try to use local, farm fresh ingredients. The strawberries are grown by family friends. The hoja santa, rosemary, and coral vine we grow ourselves. The pomegranates have been pain stakingly sources to find the best in both terroir and the treatment of the laborers who pick them.

Our name, Planchette, comes from the piece that moves on a ouija board because we wanted to infuse a little magic. We make fresh things from plants. We make them with intention. We bury jars of honey and pinecones in the spring under full moons to age for fall use. These are potions, meant to bring you wellness and joy. 

Haley also comes from a long line of people connected to the land in South Louisiana. French is part of her heritage, and we wanted a word to represent that. Planchette is French for "little plank of wood". We often call being behind the bar, being "behind the pine" or "behind the wood". Loosely, it can reference a "little bar". 

So while Planchette represents our love for all things witchy and spooky, it also represents heritage, and chosen paths forward.

We hope you'll let us make you something truely magical.