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10/05/2011 by Ashley (comments: 1)

When it comes to great packaging, my favorites are the products that have a story behind them. A few of my choice story telling blogs include our Scared Stiff Spirits and Simple Label, Legendary Story blogs. Well, Stacy has come across another spirit company that has a name and label with quite an intriguing story. The company is called Death’s Door Spirits named after the deadly water passageway between Door County and Washington Island, Wisconsin. The straight was originally named the Porte des Morts which in French translates to “the door of the dead.” There are several tales about the straight one telling the story of a great battle that occurred between two Native American tribes, and another involves Native Americans building campfire rings to lure enemies to the straight and perish in a shipwreck. A third tale involves the French creating a fictitious story about the straight being incredibly dangerous to cross, in order to prevent the English from establishing a fur trade rout through the straight. Whichever story stands to be true, the straight has lived up to being incredibly dangerous and the resting ground for numerous shipwrecks through history.
Death’s Door Spirits is a Wisconsin based company that has a collection of gin, vodka and whiskeys brewed with the grain grown on Washington Island. The packaging was created by Grip Design firm with bottle art inspired by the deadly passageway. The gin bottle has a light blue backsplash to offset the printed map of the straight on the bottom half of the bottle, and the vodka bottle has delicate gold artwork surrounding a small circular image of the Washington Island printed dead center.
For more information on these spirits and how to purchase, visit their webpage!
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Comment by Death's Door Spirits | 10/10/2011
Thanks for the shout-out!