Due North
Odd, complicated, and delicious. All three of those adjectives describe a product from Crop Vodka. It’s not what you would expect though: it’s tomato flavored. The wonderful thing about it is that it’s not gimmicky flavored, it’s actually USDA organic. On the nose, tomato really rings out, smelling like V8 minus 7.
I was also really pleased when I tasted it, because it is hands down one of the smoothest grain spirits I have tasted to date. Let me be the first to tell you that their statement, “This organic tomato flavored vodka is distilled so efficiently from certified Organic grain that no carbon treatment or charcoal filtering is required“, is absolutely spot on. I’m not sure what magic the distillers at Crop weave, but I’d love to have the spell.
I could go on for a while telling you what it tastes like or what it reminds me of, but let’s be honest, you really have to try something tomato flavored for yourself.
I wanted to create something quite different to really complement the flavor of this spirit, so here is
The Compass
3 grams of fresh cut organic onion
1 1/2 oz of Crop Tomato Vodka
2 peppermint leaves
1/2 oz of simple syrup
Shake gently at first (almost rocking) and finish with a few hard shakes. Then fine strain into a pre-chilled cocktail glass and float one peppermint leaf on top (after rubbing or clapping it).
Photography by Emily W. Kincke.
P.S. Crop has also crafted a straight grain vodka and a cucumber one as well. More news on those later. 
