A Taste of Yuletide Nantucket
“Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies,” wrote Herman Melville in Moby-Dick about the island that the Native Americans called “faraway land.”
Thirty miles off Cape Cod, Nantucket retains its 18th-century New England seaport charms – and particularly during the holiday season when “Nantucket Noel” takes over.
Commencing the day after Thanksgiving, Nantucket’s holiday festivities kick into high gear with Christmas Stroll Weekend. Now celebrating its 40th year, Christmas Stroll Weekend on Nantucket is a veritable cornucopia of iconic Yuletide revels spilling through the town’s cobblestoned streets, climaxing with the arrival of Santa Claus via Coast Guard vessel.
This year’s 40th anniversary of Christmas Stroll Weekend takes places from 6-8 December 2013 – but if you’re unable to attend this year’s festivities on Nantucket, you can still get a taste of the fabled island, thanks to Lucky Dog Vodka.
A premium all-American handcrafted vodka, Lucky Dog Vodka launched in 2012. “Born on Nantucket and raised in the Rocky Mountains,” Lucky Dog is distilled in Sun Valley, Idaho from Idaho winter wheat and clear Rocky Mountain meltwater that is drawn from the Snake River aquifer.
A Gold Medal Winner at the New York World Wine & Spirits Competition, Lucky Dog Vodka uses no added flavors. A four-column distillation method that utilizes stainless steel columns insures a vodka of silky smoothness that lightly slides across the palate with an elegant ease.
Sip a little Lucky Dog Vodka with Santa at this year’s Nantucket Christmas Stroll and you’ll taste a smooth and clean vodka, lightly redolent of citrus with a caramel and mineral finish.
Lucky Dog Vodka founder and president Greg Nichols is a former US Ski Team member and year-round Nantucket resident. Nichols wanted to be involved with something that was a reflection of his love for skiing and surfing, “more fun than cool.” The vodka’s name derives from the surfer who gets to ride the peak of the wave.
Lucky Dog Vodka‘s commitment to responsible consumption and community is marked by an ongoing donation of a portion of the proceeds to Harlem-based African Services Committee, a nonprofit foundation that combats malnutrition, tuberculosis, and AIDS in Ethiopia, and which also provides nutritional support for children, HIV tests, and antiretroviral drugs.
Now available nationally, Lucky Dog Vodka can also be ordered at the Post Ranch Inn on Big Sur, The Chanticleer in Nantucket, and numerous other restaurants.
For those in search of holiday gifts with a hint of Nantucket good taste, Lucky Dog Vodka offers a selection of Lucky Dog Vodka gear including t-shirts, baseball caps, and canvas tote bags that are handcrafted in Maine by Port Canvas, available in either natural or Lucky Dog Vodka‘s signature cobalt blue.
