Review: Triple Eight Vanilla Vodka
Triple Eight Vanilla Vodka is crafted on the island of Nantucket located 30 miles south of Cape Cod Massachusetts. The vodka base is made from organic wheat grown in Italy and it is triple distilled in a pot still. Pure soft water drawn from well #888 is blended to reduce to proof. Real vanilla beans from both New Guinea and Madagascar are infused with the vodka with one very large vanilla bean included with each bottle. Read more 
Review: Heritage Coffee Vodka
Heritage Coffee Vodka is one of 23 naturally flavored vodkas crafted at their distillery in Gig Harbor Washington. With Starbucks based in nearby Seattle Washington, it should come as no surprise that Heritage Coffee Vodka is their best selling flavored vodka. 65% of Americans drink coffee at breakfast, and the US spends $40 each year on coffee. I guess the only thing surprising should be that this is my first coffee flavored vodka review. I have reviewed several Espresso flavored vodkas. The vodka base for Heritage Coffee is small batch distilled from wine grapes in an Italian made still named Nonna. Natural flavors are then blended before bottling at 60 proof. Read more
Review: Oyo Honey Vanilla Bean Vodka
Oyo Honey Vanilla Bean Vodka is one of two seasonal vodkas crafted at the Middle West Distillery in Columbus Ohio at a former auto service garage. The other flavor is Stone Fruit. Both are made from a vodka base made from 100% soft red winter wheat, sourced from farms within an 80 mile radius of the distillery. The wheat is milled down, and the bran is removed at one local mill to ensure consistency. Water, yeast, and the wheat grain is warmed and fermented for 4 days. It is distilled in a custom built German Kothe combination pot and double column still. The vodka base is infused with local wildflower honey, and fair trade vanilla beans from Uganda. Oyo Honey Vanilla Bean Vodka is then hand bottled, corked, and dipped in wax. Brady Konya and Ryan Lang founded Middle West Spirits in 2008 and opened for production in 2008. OYO, pronounced O why O, is named for the state it is produced in. Read more
Review: Western Son Piney Woods Blueberry Vodka
Western Son Piney Woods Blueberry Vodka was released July 2014. It is one of six handcrafted flavor infused vodka flavors they produce in Pilot Point Texas. While you may not have heard of this brand, they have sold nearly 200,000 bottles of vodka in a short period of time. Western Son Blueberry starts with a vodka base made from American yellow corn and water filtered through reverse osmosis. After 10 distillations through a 20 foot column still, the vodka is quadruple filtered. Natural Blueberry essence from blueberry grown in the Piney Woods region of Texas are blended with the original vodka base before bottling at 60 proof. Read more
Review: Heritage Blood Orange Vodka
Heritage Blood Orange Vodka is one of 23 naturally flavored vodkas crafted at their distillery in Gig Harbor Washington. They also craft several gins, and whiskeys for a total of 40 different spirits in their product line. The vodka base for Heritage Blood Orange Vodka is made from wine grapes and it is small batch distilled in an Italian made still named Nonna. Natural flavors are then blended before bottling at 60 proof. Read more
Review: Triple Eight Blueberry Vodka
Triple Eight Blueberry Vodka was introduced in 2003. It is one of four flavored vodkas crafted at the Triple Eight Distillery on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts. They also make an unflavored vodka, rum, bourbon, gin, and several liqueurs. Triple Eight is named for their water, sourced from well number 888. The vodka base is made from organic wheat grown in Italy and triple distilled in a pot still. Pure sand filtered water from a deep island aquifer, well number 888, is blended to reduce to proof. Wild low bush blueberries grown in Maine are infused before bottling at 68 proof. Read more
Review: Rain Cucumber Vodka
Rain Cucumber Vodka is made from corn at the Buffalo Trace Distiller in Frankfort Kentucky. After seven distinct distillations and a polishing stage that adds limestone water, natural flavors are infused before bottling at 60 proof. Rain Vodka was one of the first organic vodkas, and at one time they offered an Organics line of flavored vodkas, which included Cucumber-Lime, Red Grape Hibiscus, Lavender Lemonade, and Honey Mango flavors. These have been replaced by a lineup that includes only two flavors, Cucumber and Mango. Gone from the bottles label is the word Organic. This leads me to believe these vodkas are no longer produced with organic corn. Read more
Review: Heritage Ruby Red Grapefruit Vodka
Heritage Ruby Red Grapefruit Vodka was released October 31 2014. Ruby Red was one of 22 naturally flavored vodka’s they launched that day to celebrate the companies second anniversary, and the grand opening of HDC Waterfront, in downtown Gig Harbor Washington. Heritage Ruby Red Grapefruit starts with their award winning Triple Distilled Vodka as a base. This vodka is small batch triple distilled from wine grapes in an Italian made still named Nonna. Natural flavors are then blended before bottling at 60 proof. Read more
Review: Western Son Hill Country Peach Vodka
Western Son Hill Country Peach Vodka is one of six flavored vodkas they craft in Pilot Point Texas. The other flavors include Ruby Red Grapefruit, Piney Woods Blueberry, South Texas Prickly Pear, South Plains Cucumber, and Apricot. 40% of the peaches grown in the state of Texas are grown in the Hill Country. This 25 county region of central and southern Texas stretches from the Northern suburbs of San Antonio ending southwest of Austin. The vodka base is made from American corn and water filtered through reverse osmosis. After 10 distillations through a 20 foot column still, the vodka is quadruple filtered. Natural peach essence are blended with the original vodka base before bottling at 60 proof. Read more
Review: Heritage Mango Vodka
Heritage Mango Vodka is one of 23 flavored vodkas crafted at the Heritage Distilling Company in Gig Harbor Washington. They also produce several unflavored vodka’s, along with several gins, and whiskeys. This is a distillery I have tracked for some time, but their distribution is limited to the West Coast, so I have not been able to pick up a bottle to review. I was very happy to see their full spirit line is now available for purchase direct from Heritage Distilling. Heritage Mango Vodka is small batch distilled with a vodka base made from wine grapes, and then blended with natural flavors and bottled at 60 proof at their distillery in Gig Harbor Washington. Read more