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Death's Door Spirits
Death's Door Spirits refers to a small batch spirits company whose office is in Madison, WI with production roots, literally, in Washington Island, WI. Currently on the market is a small-batch vodka and gin from Wisconsin grown wheat, sourced juniper berries and botanticals. Named after the Death's Door Passage (Porte des Morts)-- a legendary waterway between the tip of the Door County Penninsula and Washington Island, WI, Death's Door Spirits has a strong connection with Washington Island, Door County, Wisconsin and the Great Lakes.

The company was founded in 2007... The main ingredient in all of these endeavours, Island Wheat, sustainably grown and harvested on Washington Island, WI, was first grown and used to supply the Washington Hotel, Restaurant and Culinary School with local wheat for baked goods, lotions and soaps. A surplus of wheat led to conversations with Middleton brewery, Capital Brewery, who purchased the regional, sustainably grown wheat for what would become Capital Brewery Island Wheat, a pale ale. The success of this beer and the revival of wheat farming on Washington Island led to an exponential increase of available wheat. Death's Door Spirits came into existance by purchasing back Capital Brewery's Island Wheat beer mash and shipping it to Cedar Rapids, IA where it would be triple distiled into a into a small-batch, wheat vodka.

The Vodka was released in in February of 2007. A distilled Gin followed in June. The gin sources juniper berries from Washington Island and uses Wisconsin botanicals like fennel and coriander. All ingredients are sourced from sustainable methods of production. In 2007 all product was distilled in Cedar Rapids, IA-- keeping this product from being all-Wisconsin made. A distillery has been in construction in Madison, WI and there are plans to begin distilling in what would be Dane countys first distillery in early 2008. Death's Door Spirits plan to release their newest spirit-- a clear un-aged whisky-- into the market as their first Wisconsin sourced and distilled product by March, 2008. Once production starts in the Madison distillery, Yahara Bay Distillery, the vodka and gin will join the whisky distillation and become all-Wisconsin products.

(1) http://www.deathsdoorspirits.com/ourspirits.html (2) http://www.madison.com/tct/entertainment/265856.html (3) http://www.deathsdoorspirits.com/uploads/20070207-WSJ1.pdf