La Pavia Beverage Inc

La Pavia Beverage masterfully crafts Top Note Tonics, beverage mixers with a mission to bring flavor, approachability, and a sustainability mission to home cocktails. Formulated in-house by the co-founders with more than 20 years of beverage industry experience, Top Note is the only American beverage mixer brand to win the sofi© award for best new mixer from the Specialty Food Association. Top Note is highly regarded in the most luxury cocktail bars in Chicago for flavor, quality, and excellence in the tonic water/mixer category. Since May 2017, the company has acquired more than 1,000 points of distribution through 11 distributors in 8 states. The co-founder and President, Mary Pellettieri, has 20+ years in beverage formulation and beverage quality. Pellettieri is an accomplished professional who gained experience in the craft beer trade and then saw an opportunity to pivot to non-alcoholic beverages with Top Note. She applies her beverage quality expertise and her deep network in the craft beverage trade to this company to develop Top Note’s award-winning beverages and innovative product line. Prior to starting Top Note, Pellettieri worked in business operations and quality at MillerCoors and Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, formulating award winning beers such as Matilda, 312, and Sofie. Top Note is the beverage mixer for popular highball cocktails such as gin and tonic (tonic water), whiskey/soda (soda water) and Moscow mule (ginger beer). The mixer makes up about 75% of a highball style cocktail. There are 6 year-round flavors offered by Top Note, and 1 yearly release. Their Ginger Beer, Grapefruit Soda, Club Soda No 1, Indian Tonic Water, Classic Tonic Water, and Bitter Lemon Tonic Water are offered year-round. In 2021, Top Note released their first bartender release named Gentiana, a gentian root forward bitter soda, unique to the mixer world. The New York Times said it was “lip-smacking” and sophisticated. Top Note has had mentions in Liquor.com for Best Craft Mixer and Most Unique Ginger Beer as well. Their innovative, and high quality credential continue to win new fans. Top Note also offers their mixers in the bag-in-box for bars and restaurants.