Cold River Vodka

While on a shopping trip to Freeport, passed the Cold River Distillery and was intrigued. Entered just in time for a tour — fun experience! Also had a tasting. Neither a vodka or gin drinker, so was hesitant, but pleasantly surprised! The vodka was the smoothest I’ve ever had and the blueberry vodka was out of this world. Either could be sipped or mixed for great cocktails. The gin was nice, but I have limited space and passed on buying a bottle. The blueberry vodka came home with me, however.
Reasonable price, nice people, excellent spirits! Definitely worth an adult break from shopping and dining in Freeport.

Nothing to tour, just stopped for a tasting. Vodka & blueberry vodka was great! they also make gin, but i am not a gin drinker so I will not review. Small pour :(small tasting room.

I took a friend here a couple of weeks ago. She’s from Scotland and hard to understand at times because of her accent, but we had a blast! We learned they are going to be offering a new variety of liquor (I can’t tell you what it is, but it sounds delicious). This place has grown since my last visit in 2012, not only in size, but with more merchandise to choose from, including those small bottles you usually find in a hotel mini fridge. I grabbed a couple of those in blueberry vodka, bought a full size bottle of their regular vodka and we got three shot glasses to share! If you want a truly smooth taste, then this is the place to go (and the prices are lower there than at the liquor stores).

On our way up Maine this weekend, we decided to visit this vodka distillery we’d passed by on many past occasions.
I’m so glad we stopped in.
Vodka and gin are made and bottled right on site here using local Maine potatoes in the process.
The entire business and production area is housed in a lovely old building with the distillery operation located on the main level.
One flight up finds you in the tasting and salesroom.
There was a tour already in progress when we arrived so we went right up to the tasting room where we had the place to ourselves along with the lovely staff person.
She poured us tastes of their two signature vodkas: the regular and the blueberry flavored. Along with potatoes, blueberries are another signature Maine crop. Both vodkas were delicious.
Normally, I don’t think vodka tastes like much of anything and it’s more about how smoothly it goes down.
The plain vodka had a smooth and subtle flavor to it; very clean, crisp and easy to drink. While I am not very knowledgeable about flavored vodkas what I can tell you is that the blueberry had a lovely natural aroma of fresh blueberries with a hint of their flavor that was not overwhelming. It was subtle and agreeable.
We purchased a bottle of the plain vodka; they were out of the blueberry. I turned down a taste of the gin since I don’t care for it.
I will use the bottle we bought simply to sip or in martinis. It’s too good on its own to dilute with anything else and I think should be enjoyed as simply as possible.
The tasting room also sells an array t-​shirts and baseball hats and other souvenirs emblazoned with the name of the product: Cold River Vodka.
On our way out, the tour that had been in progress was over.
The tour guide greeted us warmly and offered us our own private tour which was very kind. Seeing all the gleaming equipment along with the huge 1,000 pound sacks of potatoes was quite something. This is a small but impressive operation.
What we found here was delicious locally crafted vodka using all local ingredients, especially those Maine potatoes. We’re happy we discovered Cold River.

Decent little distillery with cold river vodka and gin products, we tried a sample of the Maine blueberry vodka and had to buy a bottle cause its not available in NY. Good stuff,