” The partners now turn out small batches of vodka, whiskey, rum and other spirits, using grains and fruits grown on nearby farms.”
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Liquid Assets
“From there the distillery moved into some of the country’s top liquor stores, its distinctive pot-bellied bottle seen everywhere from Astor Wines & Spirits to Appellation in West Chelsea to Crush Wine and Spirits in Midtown”
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Men’s Journal
“Tuthilltown… sources 90 percent of its materials locally, from the Hudson Valley apples it distills into vodka to the heirloom corn grown for its new line of “white” (unaged) whiskey.”
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Local Spirits. A new breed of mom and pop distilleries is bringing a modern flavor to the old craft of moonshining
TIME MAGAZINE
January 14, 2008 “Local Spirits. A new breed of mom and pop distilleries is bringing a modern flavor to the old craft of moonshining”
We see this as being about creating a high-end product and also as a new way of providing revenue for small farms.
Distillers turn to the past with white whiskies
“New York’s Tuthilltown Spirits and Death’s Door of Wisconsin are the first to land at Gomer’s Midtown and other Missouri retailers (sorry, Kansas). Tuthilltown’s Hudson New York Corn Whiskey is handmade from corn grown by farms near the distillery. Some is bottled straight from the still, while the rest goes into charred new oak barrels to eventually become Hudson Baby Bourbon. “We didn’t start out to make corn whiskey,” distiller and co-owner Ralph Erenzo said. “We started out to make an aged spirit, but when we tasted this, we thought it was so extraordinary, so new and different.”
Craft Distilling’s Final Frontier: Bourbon
“There are no rick houses at Tuthilltown Spirits, located just outside New Paltz, New York. There are no racehorses bucking in a nearby field. And there’s certainly no bluegrass. Yet this small operation produces the only commercially available bourbon made entirely outside of Kentucky. In fact, all the ingredients come from farms within a few miles of the distillery. Whiskey is one of the last frontiers in the craft distiller world, for obvious reasons. It takes years to make and expensive real estate to store, and it has to meet extensive federal regulations simply to earn the name. No wonder most distillers opt for vodkas and brandies.”
Whiskey A Go Go
” This spicy whiskey is retro. It references the New York Rye made in the Hudson Valley before Prohibition.”
Father-Son Distilling Teams
In the craft distilling movement, two of the most compelling teams are on opposite sides of the country. Marko Karakasevic was recently declared the Master Distiller of Charbay after working under his father Miles for many years, making him the 13th generation in the family distilling heritage. Ralph Erenzo of New York’s Tuthilltown Spirits now has his son Gable working in the business, and even recently put out a lovely video of their teamwork as rock climbers as well as distillers.
Mini Me Liquor
” With the liquor market increasingly dominated by big brands, big flavors and big bottles. Hudson’s baby-sized spiprts prove that sometimes less is more and damn we want some more.”
Foodie File
“Fancy a night cap, New York style? US distillery Tuthilltown Spirits is bringing back classic spirits from the pre- Prohibition era……..”
Craft-Distilled Whiskies Start to Catch On
“A sign of the growing prominence of craft-distilled whiskeys became clear last week, when British liquor giant William Grant & Sons announced a partnership with Tuthilltown Spirits, a small distiller based in the Hudson River town of Gardiner, New York. The arrangement gives William Grant the opportunity to add Tuthilltown’s line of Hudson Whiskeys—which includes a bourbon, a rye, a corn whiskey, a single malt, and other styles of the spirit—to a distribution portfolio that includes Glenfiddich, Hendrick’s Gin and Milagro Tequila.”
William Grant & Sons and Tuthilltown Spirits
Modern Distillery Age Magazine
“William Grant & Sons has acquired the Hudson Whiskey range of brands from Tuthilltown Spirits of New York. The whiskies from the craft distiller, established in 2006, will be produced in Gardiner, NY, but they will now be marketed and distributed by William Grant & Sons.”
Flagship Tuthilltown spirits bought by Brits
“The UK-based company that makes Glenfiddich whiskey, The Balvenie Single Malt Scotch whiskey, and Stolichnaya vodka has bought the Hudson Valley line of spirits made by Tuthilltown Spirits. The company, William Grant & Sons, now owns a suite of Tuthilltown’s most iconic creations, including Hudson Baby Bourbon.”
Best New American Whiskeys
“According to Tuthilltown Spirits, New York had upward of 1,000 farm stills before the 1919 ratification of the Volstead act made them all illegal. When Tuthilltown launched in 2003, it became the state’s first small-batch whiskey distiller since Prohibition.”
Tuthilltown Whiskey : First Look
“For 220 years Tuthilltown Gristmill, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, used waterpower to render local grains to flour, now they are using that to make some really unique whiskey and bourbon. As whiskey and bourbon lovers we are always on the lookout for some cool and unique distillers across the U.S. and we think we found some.”
Craft Distilling
” A couple of years ago Tuthilltown Spirits became the first Bourbon distiller in New York State with its Hudson Baby Bourbon. Aged quickly in small barrels, it starts out tart, spicy, almost rye and mellows to a sweetness.”
TUTHILLTOWN SPIRITS TAKES GOLD AND TWO SILVER MEDALS
Gardiner Association of Business
“Gardiner’s own TUTHILLTOWN SPIRITS staff was on hand in Louisville Kentucky, the heart of Bourbon country, Tuesday evening when the AMERICAN DISTILLING INSTITUTE (“ADI”) announced the top awards for artisan spirits from among the two hundred fifty micro distilleries across the US. Taking Silver Medals were TUTHILLTOWN’S HUDSON MANHATTAN RYE WHISKEY and HUDSON FOUR GRAIN BOURBON in their respective categories. But the real surprise came at the end of the awards when ADI President Bill Owen announced there’d been added another category for Best Package Design; MANHATTAN RYE WHISKEY was awarded the Gold Medal.”
Park Avenue Whiskey by NY’s Tuthilltown Spirits
New York’s storied Park Avenue Liquor Shop, established in 1934, is releasing new limited edition whiskey bottling made exclusively for them by the artisanal Tuthilltown Spirits distillery in New York’s Hudson River Valley.
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