Review: Vodkow Vodka
Vodkow Vodka is crafted at Dairy Distillery in Almonte Ontario Canada. It is rare we get our hands on a vodka distilled north of the border. I hear great things about what they are doing up north and I wish we would get more. Omid McDonald a serial inventor whose start ups include medical devices, and software for DJ’s was inspired to start distilling after visiting a micro distillery while on vacation in Charleston South Carolina. Shortly after returning home he spoke with his cousin who had just returned from his uncles farm. He described how people are drinking less milk and eating more cheese and yogurt and as a result milk permeate, a milk by-product was being dumped. Omid McDonald wondered if this by-product could be used to craft a vodka. He commissioned the University of Ottawa to develop a method to transform milk permeate into alcohol. After success in the lab he built a state of the art distillery with a German made copper Christian Carl still. He launched Vodkow Vodka, a carbon neutral vodka, in 2018. They currently also produce several cream liqueurs from their Vodkow vodka base. The aroma leads with vanilla, and whipped cream. Additional time brings out tropical fruit and caramel apple notes. The sweet apple entry is joined by whipped cream building to a caramel apple peak. It fades with orange sherbet and tropical fruit and finishes warm, lightly dry, and peppery with green banana, orange peel, and pineapple. Gold Medal flavor they just didn’t stick the landing.
Made in Almonte Ontario Canada
40% Alcohol
Flavor: 92
Finish: 89
Score: 90.5
Award: Silver Medal