Hangar One Vodka

because we make it in an incredibly old-fashioned hands-on way. We use real fruit and no additives.

Jorg Rupf and Lance Winters figured out how to make straight vodka taste good. First they pot-distill a vodka from expensive viognier wine. Then they blend it into an excellent column still wheat vodka. Here’s the magic: there’s no harsh alcoholic smell or taste, just soft beautiful purity.

Jorg & Lance pot-distill vodka from real and wonderful fresh fruit.
No artificial flavorings, no additives. Here’s what we’re making right now.

This weird & rare South Asian citrus variety is beautifully aromatic. The lemon flavor is delicate but deep & complex. Folks in China hang them in their closets to make their clothes smell good. We can’t get them all the time so sometimes we run out.

From upper Washington state, the Meeker raspberry makes a startlingly fresh-tasting vodka. We make only one batch a year, in June, when the berries are ripe.

Unusual & knobbly Indonesian lime. We use the leaves too - they are the ones you see in Thai cuisine. Great fresh lime taste, without any of that artificial overtones that spoil so many lime products.

Totally fresh tangerines in the infusion, with fresh tangerine flowers added. It’s like peeling an actual tangerine, a really good one: the tiny spray of oil that comes up from your thumbnail is exactly what our vodka smells and tastes like.

When St. George Spirits' Lance Winters gets a good idea, he works on it, and then makes a small batch to sell. Batch 1 was Wasabi, released February 2006. Batch 2 is Chipotle, released in April 2007.

Video of Lance distilling Chipotle