Clean, smooth and silky. - Anthony Dias Blue, Tasting Panel magazine
High West handcrafts Vodka 7000’ in small batches from one of the finest grains in the world, oats. Oats create a smoother, creamier, fuller-bodied vodka with more character than any vodka you have ever had.
Vodka 7000’ is best enjoyed as a sipping vodka on the rocks or stirred into a very dry Martini. The natural vanilla flavor from the oats also pairs well with other mixers for your favorite vodka based cocktail.
7000’ is the exact elevation of where we distill Vodka 7000’. The unique attributes of our high-altitude locale lead to a great-tasting, distinctively smooth sipping vodka.
The silky-smooth taste and rich mouth feel of Vodka 7000’ comes from two distinctive parts of our recipe. First, our water. Here in Utah’s mountains, pure snowmelt is naturally filtered in deep rock aquifers to produce great-tasting water with a well-balanced mineral content. If you like Pellegrino or other mineral waters, you no doubt enjoy the taste and mouth feel that minerals (calcium carbonate) contribute. Mineral water tastes good, it’s good for you, and we think it makes a huge difference in the taste of Vodka 7000’.
We combine our superb water with carefully distilled, locally grown oats. Utah’s climate makes ideal growing conditions for plump sweet oats. According to old distilling manuals, distillers from the 1800’s considered oats to make a superior tasting libation. Today, oats are no longer used because of their high cost and difficulty to distill. But we think their subtle nutty and vanilla flavor is worth the extra effort. We distill the oat spirit in our manually operated copper pot still which provides more deliberate control in selecting the most flavorful “heart” of the oats which contributes to the full body and incredible smoothness of Vodka 7000’.
— “Clean, smooth and silky with notes of vanilla and sweetness; lovely, balanced and very mellow.” - Anthony Dias Blue
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