In a land of great beauty and green mountains, a sea that gives it its name. Cantabria can boast of having a little big distillery. This is the Distillery Siderit, which in addition to other great products produces a really peculiar vodka, the Siderit Lactee.
The birth of Siderit Lactée
Siderit was born from the hand of Rubén Leivas and David Prieto, which in 2012 created a micro-distillery in Cantabria and produced their first Geneva. At that time they already had in mind to create a milk-based vodka and they created it. "Although they told us it couldn't be done, it could be done", Prieto comments to Great Products. "We work with a milk obtained from cows that have a special diet to obtain the maximum possible lactose".
Like any distilled it is important to have a high level of sugars. For this milk to produce the fermentation maximum alcohol possible. They do this with milk and yeasts that help fermentation and that Siderit has patented.
“This process lasts about 20 days and after this time we keep the serum that already has 7º of alcohol and we carry out five distillations. At the end we get 96º of alcohol that we reduce with water from the Ortigosa del Monte spring. One of the springs with the weakest mineralization in the Iberian Peninsula "
El filtered out It is made with natural products and in this way a high purity. This mix o blending It is resting in stainless steel tanks for four months and then the final product will be ready. Is he Siderit Lactée vodka.
Awards for this 'milk' vodka
Of this vodka so characteristic and of the highest quality, more than 30 thousand bottles are manufactured per year. 90% is exported to more than 30 countries, mainly north of Europe, Russia, the United States, Japan and Australia.
Siderit Vodka Lactee has been awarded the San Francisco Spirit Awards 2014 and Gold Medal Brussels 2015. What has helped him, along with a great commercial work, to have this high international presence.
Soon, Siderit will open a new distillery in Maple Bridge. Just 10 kilometers from Santander, facilities that can be visited by the public. There you can learn more about all the distillates they produce.
