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Wynand Fockink

In a narrow lane behind the Krasnapolsky, Wynand Fockink has been making liqueurs since the seventeenth century. Its tasting room, a proeflokaal, is a small room of dark wood and bottles where Amsterdammers have stopped for a glass on their way home for three hundred years.

What it is
Tasting room
Opened
1679
Area
Dam Square
Nearest museum
Our Lord in the Attic, 400 m

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    What Wynand Fockink is known for

    1. The tasting room

      A proeflokaal, the Dutch tasting room, with a counter, shelves of bottles to the ceiling and little room to sit.

    2. The distillery

      Founded in 1679 by Jan Bierman and carried on under its present name from 1729, it still makes its own jenevers and liqueurs.

    3. The courts of Europe

      In the nineteenth century its liqueurs won gold medals at the world fairs and were supplied to the royal courts of the Netherlands, Belgium, Prussia, Spain and others.

    What to know

    • Founded in 1679 by Jan Bierman, and called Wynand Fockink since 1729
    • The wine merchant Wijnand Fockink bought the house in the Pijlsteeg in 1731
    • It showed its liqueurs at the world fairs of Paris in 1878 and Antwerp in 1885

    Where Wynand Fockink is

    Address

    Pijlsteeg 31
    1012 HH Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Nearest station

    Dam, on the tram, about three minutes away. Rokin, on metro line 52, is four minutes away

    Museums and sights nearby

    Distances are in a straight line from the restaurant.

    A distillery of 1679

    Jan Bierman founded the distillery in 1679, and it has carried on under the name of Wynand Fockink since 1729. In 1731 the wine merchant Wijnand Fockink bought the house in the Pijlsteeg from the heirs of Gerrit Gijen.

    In the nineteenth century the firm won gold medals at the world fairs and became a supplier to many of the royal houses of Europe.

    Wynand Fockink: common questions

    Where is Wynand Fockink?
    At Pijlsteeg 31, in the Centrum district of Amsterdam. The nearest station is Dam, on the tram, about three minutes away. Rokin, on metro line 52, is four minutes away.
    Which museums and sights are near Wynand Fockink?
    Our Lord in the Attic is 400 m away, Rembrandt House Museum is 500 m away, National Maritime Museum is 1.3 km away. Distances are in a straight line from the restaurant.
    What is Wynand Fockink known for?
    The tasting room, The distillery, The courts of Europe. A liqueur distillery founded in 1679 in a lane behind Dam Square, with its old tasting room where jenever and liqueurs are poured into small tulip glasses.
    When did Wynand Fockink open?
    In 1679. Founded in 1679 by Jan Bierman, and called Wynand Fockink since 1729.

    What visitors say about Wynand Fockink

    Rating from Google

    4.7

    2,282 ratings on Google

    Google's figures as read on 19 October 2026.

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