About Us
Runamok is a family-owned, Vermont-based company that began with a foundation of premium, organic maple syrup and has busted open the category of what maple can be and be used for.
We were not the first to try infused and barrel-aged maple, but we took it in directions it had never been before. We also set out to teach consumers how this sweetener is the right ingredient for so much more than pancakes (though we are pretty fond of those too).
Runamok:
A Brief History
Runamok was started by two tree-hugging flat-landers, one with a culinary background and the other with a simmering entrepreneurial spirit. Laura and Eric Sorkin moved to Vermont in 2000 and spent ten years as organic vegetable farmers, but in 2009 shifted their focus to tapping their woods. At first, they sold their maple on the bulk market but in 2016 decided to launch a retail brand.
With elegant packaging, innovative flavor profiles, and the highest quality ingredients, their infused, smoked, and barrel-aged maple made waves in the food world right out of the gate, from “Oprah’s Favorite Things” to Saveur and Food & Wine.
Today we sell our syrup at over 2,100 stores nationally and internationally, as well as through our website and Amazon. With years of experience creating drinks, we expanded into maple-based cocktail mixers and bitters. We also regularly release new products such as seasonal syrups and the sensational Sparkle Syrup.
The foundation of top-quality ingredients is still at the core of everything we produce.
The Team
Our company is only as good as the people who work here and we are grateful to have a dedicated, smart, and hardworking team. One third consists of the woods crew who tackle the elements all winter and spring to produce Vermont’s finest maple syrup.
To learn more about the incredibly hard work of sugaring, check out our Maple 101 blog.
Another part of our team is the production crew who take our maple and infuse, barrel-age, and smoke it at our production facility in Fairfax, Vermont. Everyone on our bottling, finishing, and shipping teams maintains the highest standard of quality and safety to bring you our delicious products, beautifully presented in gift-worthy packaging.
The final part of the team is sales/marketing, quality control, and new product development. These are the folks who keep the wheels in motion and ensure a bottle of Runamok can be found in a store near you or will arrive safely in your mailbox. These are also the people who meticulously develop new syrups with perfect balance and flavor, as well as those who find new, creative ways to use the finished product.
Why Maple?
We started producing maple syrup because we wanted to embrace both the history of maple and the opportunity to discover new ways of using it in international and modern cooking. We are always exploring, testing and tasting, and are constantly amazed by how versatile it is as an every day ingredient.
Our love of the product is equally matched by our desire for an environmentally-friendly operation. One of our favorite aspects of sugaring is that it allowed us to create a high-quality, natural food while also protecting forest land. We know that the thousands of acres of forest our sap comes from is treated with care and managed for biodiversity, water quality and habitat. In fact maple syrup is one of the best examples of agriculture and conservation co-existing.
What We Do Now
Today we sell our syrup at over 2,100 stores nationally and internationally, as well as through our website and Amazon. With years of experience creating drinks, we expanded into maple-based cocktail mixers and bitters.
We also regularly release new products such as seasonal syrups and the sensational Sparkle Syrup. The foundation of top quality ingredients is still at the core of everything we produce.
Producer Partners
While we still have our maple sugaring operations in Cambridge and Bolton, we have long surpassed our capacity to supply all the maple syrup we need for the business.
As a result, we buy maple from family farms who are as dedicated to a high-quality product as we are. Rather than gloss over the source of our supply, we are proud to support this group of 30+ family farms and to be part of the greater agricultural community.
