FOR THE LOVE OF WHAT ENDURES
This is what happens when two ski bums start a family, take up fishing and decide to start their own Colorado whisky distillery way up in the mountains of Colorado.
Minturn Whisky Co. was founded by husband and wife duo Stef and Spence Neubauer.
SPENCE
Spence moved to Colorado in 2007 to pursue his love of skiing and became a patroller at Copper Mountain. He has a rare ability to taste – not just enjoy – the difference between whiskies, and a quiet obsession with single malt Scotch that never quite went away. He taught Stef the beauty of the telemark turn and introduced her to Scotch. Both decisions changed everything.
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What Spence is building.
The plans are drawn. The land is ready. This is what comes next.
A destination distillery in the Colorado Rockies. Shovel-ready, architecturally planned, and built on the same values that brought us here.
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STEF
Stef grew up in Colorado. Her parents – both skiers – met on a gondola in Zermatt, Switzerland, and decided to raise their family in these mountains. Every weekend, the family would explore in a Buick station wagon. She grew up skiing, fishing, and camping. She has a chemistry degree and an MD – but walked away from medicine after realizing her true love was making whisky, not treating patients. It took twenty years to admit it. It was the right call.
TOGETHER
They both gravitate toward doing things the slow way. The traditional way. Most evenings you’ll find them knitting together, listening to music. A sweater takes a few months each. Spence makes a Sunday sauce that takes all day. Stef paints in oils that sometimes take a month to dry.
They love to fish but don’t mind if the action is slow. It’s still a day out on the river under the sky.
Now they have two boys of their own and hope to pass on their love of skiing, fishing, and all of the slowed-down wonders in this world.
A perfect turn in the powder. The way the alpenglow pauses above an evening on the river. A trout gently sipping flies from the surface.
A perfect dram of whisky.
