Review: Marble Gingercello Reserve
Marble Gingercello Reserve is one of four spirits currently produced at the Marble Distilling Co. A whiskey and bourbon are currently aging and will be available soon. The distillery is a family and friends owned business that includes a tasting room that features a marble bar, cut from two 9000 lb. blocks mined from the Yule quarry in nearby Marble Colorado. The bar back is made from bricks, from the historic stable originally built on this land. The distillery also has the worlds only inn housed within a working distillery. With a background in the pharmaceutical business, co-founder and head distiller Connie Baker attending distillery school at The Dry Fly Institute in Spokane Washington. Yes she transitioned from drugs to liquor. What’s next firearms? After graduating January 2011, she worked with her husband Carey to build the worlds only zero waste artisan distillery, on land she and friend Michelle Marlow had purchased as a long term investment. The distillery opened June 2015. The equipment used to craft their spirits is 100% American made. Marble Gingercello Reserve is made from a 60% ABV corn distillate. This spirit is redistilling in a 250 gallon Vendome copper pot still with vapor transferring through a botanical basket filled with fresh cut Brazilian ginger. There is macerated ginger in the belly of the still as well. The now 80% ABV ginger infused vodka rests for several weeks with lemons zested by hand. A light simple syrup made from beet sugar grown in Wyoming is blended with the ginger lemon vodka. The spirit is then rested in bourbon barrels once used to age Colorado Straight Bourbon at the Peach Street Distillers in nearby Palisade Colorado. Read more 