I'm glad to read this actually ! As a wannabe craft distiller myself, I was just wondering how these vodka could be on the market and what was the federal government reaction about it.
If in fact you can do it, it's perfect like that because let's say it clearly, the law is prohibitive and bad.
For me I think it's a little bit different. My project is located in Quebec and we must sell to the state-owned liqueur stores SAQ. I think it would be impossible to us to do what you're doing in other provinces where you can sell your spirits at your distillery.. We can't unfortunately ...
I don't know if I'm right but I heard a new craft distillery here in Quebec that is trying right now to sell a vodka made from apples and they have all sorts of trouble with labeling it as vodka ..