be the company’s highest seller, accounting for approximately half of total production volume, and the sole Grand Teton product represented in the California market. However,it is conscious evolution that continues to pave the company’s way forward. Even with all that’s grown to fruition (including an 80,000 bottle annual production volume) the company keeps true to its locally-sourced, light-on-waste roots. Grand Teton’s vodka range now includes eight-week infusions of wild huckleberry and sour cherry. The distillery has also undertaken the aging and bottling of double gold medal whiskey labels such as Colter’s Run, Catamount, and Gamekeeper. “We wanted to see how whiskey would age in our unique environment,” Andrew said of the distillery’s spacious interior and temperate exterior environment. “As it turns out whiskey ages very well here.” For the past four years, the company has been patiently barrel-aging a malt whiskey for which it holds very high hopes. Andrew explains the company’s approach, using 100 percent Idaho malted barley, to be in keeping with the style of the Scots. He speculates that Grand Teton Distillery may be unique in the state of Idaho for its methodology. The libation produced thanks to that labor of love is described succinctly as American single malt whiskey, born of a local family farm which grows as well as malts its own 2-row barley. As for the whiskey itself, it is double-distilled in a hybrid copper pot still before maturing in Colter’s Run bourbon barrels and then double-barrel finished in red wine barrels from nearby Jackson Hole Winery. Expect the American single malt, which is milled, mashed, fermented, distilled, and matured in-house at Grand Teton, to pack a taste profile noted for rich, fruity complexity. That aspiration to expand product lines parallels a general company push to revamp Grand Teton’s labeling. The new branding brings forward the talents of Joshua Jevons at Denver-based Jevons Design Co. and Andrew describes the project as a unification of art to represent the company’s true spirit. “It’s great how multifaceted and dynamic we are,” Andrew said. “It’s about owning that thing that you do, while working with people to create something fresh.” The heightened bio-climate of recent months is a prime stage to showcase Grand Teton’s motivation to keep it fresh. The distillery changed production gears to combat the pandemic by providing hand sanitizer. The shift is a partnership with fellow valley business New West Knife Works and Wildrye Distilling of Bozeman, Montana, to make over 12,000 2- to 4-oz bottles of degerming juice donated throughout the respective communities. It’s a big shift, but with the same bottom line. The crew at Grand Teton Distillery loves where they’re at and what they do, so they’re willing to work (and rework) to prove it. It’s a palpable passion for excellence that’s leaving a pleasant finish on the palates of craft connoisseurs. Grand Teton Distillery is located in Driggs Idaho. For more information call (208)354-7263 or visit www.tetondistillery.com. WWW.ART ISANSP IRITMAG.COM
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