Wine & Spirits Magazine
July, 2006

excerpt from
Spirit of New England
By Jessica Merrill

Duncan Holaday, who produces a wood-fire-distilled charcoal-filtered vodka from 100 percent maple sap under the Vermont Spirits label, says his distillery represents "the working landscape."

"We were trying to figure out how to live on our land in Vermont. It has maple trees and fresh spring water, so we figured we could make vodka," he explains. He built a post-and-beam distillery out of local pine, then began producing one of New England's earliest premium vodka back in 2001...

[July 2006 issue]