Maison De La Vie

25 March 2009

Well, the Maison De La Vie "village distillery" project continues to move forward at a snails pace … but we are moving forward.

This past weekend REDUX Absinthe was awarded a Bronze Medal at this year's San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

The formula of the sample submitted is still a "distillers proof" … It's a good result for our first public tasting.

As for the distillery itself … our plans to build a distillery in North East Ohio have now been scrapped as I will be relocating to the Denver area over the next year for family reasons.

My stills are in storage and will remain there until we can move them to Colorado and build and license a distillery there.
In the mean time REDUX Absinthe will go into production hopefully within the next few months at either a distillery in Michigan that we have a letter of intent with, or at distillery in France that we're in discussions with …. if the latter happens, Maison De La Vie will pursue a license as an importer, and will likely import other tasty libations along with our own product in the near future as well.

As soon as I figure out where we'll be producing I'll continue improving the formula and processes for REDUX on the production stills we'll be using.

In the mean time we're working on the web-site as well, adding a lot of content and information … ultimately including a distiller's library and an area where we'll be making small quantities of Antique distillation equipment available for purchase. So please check back at www.village-distillery.com or www.redux-absinthe.com from time to time.

More to follow …

Stephen