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A LONG ROAD; A NEW BEGINNING
January 17, 2020, will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of Prohibition. Described by President Herbert Hoover as “a great social and economic experiment,...
PROMOTION
NAUTI SPIRITS
916 Shunpike Rd., N. Cape May
nautispirits.com
609.770.3381
“We distill the true way—from scratch. Every day, I look out on our fields that I helped plant, still amazed that we’ll soon harvest those beautiful crops and craft them into some of the highest quality spirits available anywhere. I love it—there’s no one else out there quite like us.” —Veronica Townsend, Head Distiller
Nauti Spirits’ journey began with Steve Miller, a US Navy veteran who, with his wife, Caroline, formed the company and the vision of Nauti Spirits Farm Distillery in 2013. They worked tirelessly over the next four years, brought in several partners, including then-farm-owners Corey and Dorey Bryan, and hired current Head Distiller Veronica Townsend to create true farm-to-bottle spirits—all of which have won gold medals in highly respected international and domestic competitions. The distillery—NJ’s largest, and open since 2017—now owns and sits on a bucolic 60-acre preserved farm, and handcrafts nearly all of its spirits from local, Jersey-grown ingredients, including sweet potatoes and corn from its own fields and grains grown on nearby land leased by the distillery. Nauti takes pride in its signature Vodka made from its own sweet potatoes and corn, its smooth and deliciously floral 100% Jersey wheat Gin with perfectly infused botanicals, and its light gold Rum born of high-grade Southern molasses and finished with a 90-day rest in second-use whiskey barrels.
COCKTAIL PICKS
Beet Ya to the Punch
NS Vodka, beet, lime and rosemary
Shunpike Punch
NS Rum, lemon, lime, pineapple, orange oleo-saccharum syrup, & bitters
Forbidden Fruit
NS Gin, pomegranate, pineapple, lemon, bitters
WHERE TO FIND: On-site, and throughout NJ, DE, MD, VA & Washington, DC.
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