Combines the best of Russian heritage and good old American innovation. It starts, in Latvia, with a centuries-old recipe. In 1995, when Marc Spain traveled to the former Russian state to visit his new wife Elena’s family, he was impressed with the wonderful, smooth vodka they served at dinner. His father-in-law, Simyon Metore, told Marc that while the average Russian could only afford the government-produced vodka, his family had a secret recipe.

Simyon took Marc to a small room full of stills and filtration equipment. He explained that
his family had used a similar process to produce fine, smooth vodka out of the poor state
product for more than a hundred years.

Marc brought the recipe back to the United States and embarked on years of testing and
experimenting. The goal was not just to reproduce Simyon’s vodka, but to make it better.
The result was Metore’s ultra premium sipping vodka.