Aspen Times Weekly: Marble Spirit
by Amiee White Beazley
It’s a been a little over four months since Marble Distilling Company opened its doors on Main Street in Carbondale, and according to distiller and co-owner Connie Baker, “It’s been crazy,” she says, “crazy — great!”
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Distilled in “Hazel,” a 250-gallon Vendome copper pot still, these are first and only spirits in the world known to be filtered through marble pieces — straight from the Yule Quarry, 20 miles down the road in the town of Marble, where Baker lives and where the distillery gets its name. (The spirits feature an image of the Lincoln Memorial, made with marble from the Yule Quarry.) Marble, as it turns out, has many of the same qualities of carbon, says Baker, providing a soft, round mouthfeel to the spirits.
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