Review: Deaths Door Vodka
Deaths Door Vodka is one of four spirits distilled in Middleton Wisconsin by the Deaths Door Spirits Company. The other three include a gin, white whiskey, and Wondermint, an artisan craft peppermint schnapps. The company is named for the passageway between Washington Island and The Door County Wisconsin Peninsula where many shipped perished throughout the years. Deaths Door vodka is crafted with a 60/40 mix of organic hard red winter wheat grown on Washington Island, and malted barley from Chilton Wisconsin. The vodka is double distilled in a 90 gallon copper pot still, hand cut, and bottled unfiltered. Read more 
Review: Pickers Original Vodka
Pickers Original Vodka was introduced earlier this year along with a Blueberry and Blood Orange flavored vodka. They are created at the Speakeasy Spirits Distillery located in the historic west town neighborhood of Nashville Tennessee. Pickers vodka is crafted with non GMO corn that is distilled 11 times in a 32 foot state of the art Vendome column still that features 48 plates to remove impurities. Once distilled the vodka is filtered four times and then blended with pure Tennessee limestone water. Read more
Review: DSP CA 162 Straight Vodka
DSP CA 162 Straight Vodka. It is crafted with a blend of wheat vodka with premium wine varietal grapes including Muscat, Riesling, and Viogenier, grown in Mendocino County California. The grapes are vinified at local wineries and then distilled on their Germain-Robin Cognac still, and distilled again on a small Holstein pot still. The vodka is finally cold stabilized and filtered. Read more
Review: Hanson of Sonoma Organic Vodka
Hanson of Sonoma Organic vodka was introduced in 2013. It is one of six vodka’s the Hanson family crafts in the heart of wine country, Sonoma California. The other flavors include ginger, cucumber, espresso, boysenberry, and the previously reviewed mandarin. The vodka is small batch distilled with organic Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, and French Colombard grapes, and pure Artesian well water using a pot and column still that uses 50 distillation plates. The vodka undergoes a proprietary seven stage filtration before bottling in a signed, numbered, and corked bottle. Read more
Review: Pau Maui Vodka
Pau Maui Vodka was introduced in 2008. The distillery is located at the old Maui Land and Pineapple Cannery on the slopes of Haleakala, in the middle of a pineapple field. It is crafted by Master Distiller Mark Nigbur who created his own Altius Vodka in Colorado Springs before he was enticed to Maui. Pau Maui is made with Maui Gold pineapple grown feet from the distillery and crystal clear Hawaiian spring water. The vodka is distilled in a one of a kind 14 foot glass column still and filtered with stone carbon. Read more
Review: Prairie Organic Vodka
Prairie Organic vodka is crafted with a single vintage #2 yellow organic corn grown on three family farms in Minnesota. It is distilled to taste not a prescribed number of times at a farmer owned distillery in Benson Minnesota. The leftover corncobs are converted to fuel and the leftover distillers grain is used by local farmers for feed. They also create a cucumber flavored vodka and gin. Prairie Organic is bottled in Princeton Minnesota by Ed Phillips and Sons in recycled glass bottles. Read more
Review: Titos Vodka
Titos Vodka is made is Austin Texas at the states first and oldest legal distillery. When Tito’s was launched in 1997, it’s owner Tito Beverage was $88,000 in debt having maxed out 19 credit cards to start the business. Tito’s is crafted in small batches from 100% corn and water sourced from deep aquifers. It is distilled six times in an old fashioned home made pot still and then filtered through activated carbon to remove residual impurities. Read more
Review: Hangar One Vodka
Hangar One vodka was introduced in 2002. It was crafted as a collaboration between Ansely Coale from Germain-Ronbin and Jorg Rupf from St. George Spirits. It is made with Midwestern wheat distilled in a custom built column still and Viognier grapes distilled in a copper pot still. Hangar One is named after the World War II era hangar at the old Alameda Navel Air Station where it was first created. Hangar One was acquired by Proximo in 2010 and it is now distilled in a building next door. Read more
Review: Leaf Alaskan Glacial Water Vodka
Leaf Alaskan Glacial Water vodka, is one of two vodka’s crafted at the Temperance Distillery in Temperance Michigan. Their other vodka is crafted with Rocky Mountain Mineral water. These two vodkas are both made from organic wheat that is distilled five times. The only difference between the two vodka’s is the water used. Their Alaskan vodka uses water that starts out as four glaciers that melt and wind their way down the mountain into Alaska’s Blue Lake. Read more
Review: American Harvest Organic Vodka
American Harvest Organic vodka was introduced in 2011 by the company behind Grey Goose Vodka, Sidney Frank. While Sidney Frank himself died in 2006, his company lives on. After selling Grey Goose to Bacardi in 2004 for $2.3 Billion and waiting out a non compete clause, they are back in the vodka business. It is crafted in small batches with organic wheat that is grown on a family owned farm in Idaho. A four column continuous distillation process is used. The spirit is blended with water from aquifers deep beneath the Snake River plain and a proprietary mixture of organic ingredients. A four step charcoal filtration process follows before it is hand bottled at 80 proof. Read more