Audécious

The Free Bacchus Story

Vodka is defined in most markets as a spirit made to be without distinctive character, aroma or taste. It is the only major category on the shelf whose legal identity is an absence, which makes it an unusually demanding place to try to say anything about farming.

Audécious is built on organic sugarcane rather than the more common grain or potato base, distilled in Whistler, British Columbia. The choice of raw material is the substantive decision here: cane spirit carries a rounder texture and a faint sweetness that survives rectification better than most bases, which is precisely the quality a vodka producer interested in origin would be looking for.

We should be transparent about our own position. Our published standard holds vodka to a higher specificity bar than any other category, because organic certification alone tells you something true about a field and very little about a liquid the process is designed to render neutral. What we ask for is a traceable connection between the certified farming and the character in the bottle — and we apply that test to founding houses as strictly as to anyone else, which is the only way the test means anything.

As a Founding House, Audécious occupies a particular position on this platform, and we would rather state the relationship plainly than let it sit unmentioned. Readers can weigh that as they see fit; the certification and the sourcing are checkable either way.