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PRESS & REVIEWS
Just Don't Call It Moonshine
by Toby Cecchini
Published NY Times December, 2010
 An
Apple a Day
by Noah Rothbaum
The trendiest item on bar menus these days is
about 400 years old. Thanks to the cocktail world’s antiquarian
obsession, applejack is back, showing up in both classic and
new drinks. Also known as apple brandy—America’s
counterpart to the French calvados—applejack is made from
distilled cider and aged in oak barrels. With origins in the
Northern colonies, it may be the country’s first distilled
spirit.
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 Have
a Shot in the Hudson Valley
by Rebecca Rothbaum
Take a free tour of Harvest Spirits, third-generation
apple-farmer Derek Grout's award-winning distillery. Try the
aptly named Core Vodka, found on the drink menu at the Farm
on Adderley, or the newly released, quad-distilled Cornelius
Murray Apple Jack, aged one year. Sober up with a bag of apples
and some cider doughnuts from the farm stand on your way out.
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"Harvest Spirits Core
Vodka Yields ‘Pick of the Season’ Drink Recipes"
Core Vodka is produced by micro-distillers within
the United States based in New York. The theory is family grown
apples using sustainable farming methods, natural ingredients,
pure water and a custom designed German still where the people
of Harvest Spirits craft their unique spirits.
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"A New Pear Brandy from
Harvest Spirits"
The direct translation from Swedish and French,
“water of life,“ sounds a little over the top, at
least hereabouts, so Harvest Spirits settled on “brandy”
to describe the latest addition to its line.
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"TURNING APPLES INTO VODKA"
News Channel 13, Albany, NY — April 28, 2008
KINDERHOOK- Apple trees across the Capital Region are blossoming.
And already one grower is thinking about the apples that won't
make it to market.
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"CORE, THE APPLE BASED VODKA "
Luxist.com
April 6, 2008
According to Harvest Spirits a premium vodka doesn't have to
start with grain or potatoes, and they're proving it by making
a fine vodka out of something completely different: apples.
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"CORE Vodka"
AllOverAlbany.com
April 6, 2008
Check it out: two guys in Columbia County are launching a vodka
made from apples. CORE Vodka is a collaboration between Tom
Crowell, a brewery owner, and Derek Grout, a web designer (re)turned
farmer.
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"Cheer in small
batches: Core vodka creates a new use for local apples"
The Independent, Columbia County, NY
April 1, 2008
LAST MARCH, Derek Grout, scion of Golden Harvest Orchard on
Route 9H in Valatie, received shipment of a new-built distillery
from the Christian Carl company in Germany and began putting
together a method for turning the apples grown in the orchard
into a fine, small-batch vodka.
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