Víti Icelandic Premium Aquavite
Garðabær, Höfuðborgarsvæði, Iceland
- ABV
- 47%
- Base spirit
- Barley
- Color
- Clear
- Style
- Unaged Aquavit
Víti Icelandic Premium Aquavite is a caraway-led Icelandic aquavit produced by Eimverk Distillery in Garðabær. It is made from 100% Icelandic barley and triple distilled in the distillery’s custom-made small-batch system. Eimverk states that this method is intended to retain more character from the barley while preserving essential oils from the botanicals during distillation.
The botanical profile is built around caraway, supported by a wider group of Icelandic ingredients. Documented botanicals include rhubarb, Icelandic moss, kale, Arctic thyme, birch leaves, angelica root, meadowsweet, sweet kelp and crowberries. Earlier descriptions of Víti listed a shorter subset of these botanicals, but they are consistent with the same caraway-led style.
Víti is bottled at 47% ABV. An early 700 ml bottling documented in 2015 carried the distinctive Viking illustration, while later packaging adopted the Víti Brennivín / Icelandic Schnapps / Hand Crafted Premium Aquavite design. The current Icelandic retail presentation is sold as Víti Icelandic Aquavite in a 500 ml format, while 700 ml and 750 ml bottles and 50 ml miniatures are also documented.
The spirit is clear and unaged. In 2015, Víti received a Gold medal at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, one of the early international awards for Eimverk’s spirits.
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About the producer
Eimverk Distillery
Garðabær, Höfuðborgarsvæði, Iceland
Eimverk Distillery is a family-run Icelandic distillery based in Garðabær. Its origins date to 2009, when members of the Þorkelsson family began experimenting with whisky made from Icelandic-grown barley. The formal company, Eimverk ehf., was established in the summer of 2011, following several years of research and product development, and its first commercial products reached the market in 2013.
The project grew from the family’s connection with grain farming in southern Iceland. Brothers Haraldur “Halli” Þorkelsson and Egill Þorkelsson were central to developing the distillery, with Egill working on distillation and Haraldur on the business side, while several other family members became involved in production, farming, quality control and international sales. The whisky recipe alone went through more than 160 experimental distillations and maturation tests before the family settled on the version that became Flóki.
Eimverk built its production around Icelandic barley and Icelandic water, using custom-made distillation equipment developed for the character of the local grain. Barley has been grown on the family farm at Bjálmholt in South Iceland as well as sourced from other Icelandic farms. The distillery subsequently developed three principal spirit families: Flóki whisky, Vor gin and Víti Brennivín, with the gin and aquavit originating from the same Icelandic barley-based spirit used in the whisky production before additional botanical distillation.
Eimverk remains an independent family operation at Lyngás 13, Garðabær. Its current range continues to center on Flóki, Vor and Víti, and the company identifies itself as Iceland’s first whisky distillery and as a producer working with 100% Icelandic barley.
