FREEPORT, Maine — Maine Distilleries, LLC, producer of Cold River Vodka, Cold River Blueberry Flavored Vodka and Cold River Gin is proud to announce that it will be donating one pound of potatoes to prominent food banks in each state for every bottle of Cold River sold in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts during the first quarter of 2012.
Maine Distilleries, of Freeport, Maine, in coordination with family-owned Green Thumb Farms, of Fryeburg, Maine, is partnering with The Good Shepherd Food Bank in Auburn, Maine, The New Hampshire Food Bank in Manchester, NH, and the Greater Boston Food Bank in Boston, in an effort to raise awareness of hunger and food insecurity in New England.
Sales of the three Cold River products across the tri-state area are expected to grow substantially during the first quarter of 2012, and Maine Distilleries looks forward to making a sizable donation of farm-fresh Maine potatoes at the time of the fall harvest in Fryeburg next year.
Uniquely positioned in the vodka and gin market as 100% gluten-free, farm-to-table and hand-crafted, Maine Distilleries hopes to heighten consumer awareness of its award-winning American-made spirits through this 2012 potato donation and its continued close work with its brokers and distributors in its key New England markets.
Founded in 2005, Maine Distilleries, located in Freeport, Maine, is the brainchild of Donnie Thibodeau, who owns Green Thumb Farms in Fryeburg; his brother, Lee Thibodeau, a neurosurgeon in Portland; Bob Harkins, a former Sunday River ski executive from Paris, Maine; and Chris Dowe, Head Distiller, from New Gloucester, Maine.
Known for their distinct nose and satin-smooth finish, the company’s gluten-free vodkas and gin are hand-crafted and batch-distilled in a copper pot still, using water from Maine’s Cold River Aquifer and farm-fresh Maine potatoes.