Who We Are

Altitude Spirits was founded and is owned by the entrepreneurial father and son team of Mitch and Matthew Baris, both of Boulder, Colorado. A passion for exceptional vodka runs in the Baris blood. Mitch’s great-grandfather (and Matthew’s great-great-grandfather) was an old world European vodka distiller before the family immigrated to America. Mitch and Matthew are happy to combine old world family traditions with the best in modern technology to produce the finest vodka available, Vodka 14.

What We Are About
We are responding to the wishes of our consumers by bringing to market a world class vodka with exceptional smoothness, clarity and taste that is crafted to the highest levels of purity without pesticides nor chemical additives in any step of the process. We back up these claims with the most rigorous legal benchmark of purity, the United States Department of Agriculture organic certification, and with unmatched taste.

It is the further aim of Altitude Spirits to support the community that supports us. That is why we are committed to donating a percentage of our profits to organizations that strive to better our environment and enhance the lives of those around us. Altitude Spirits will provide donations to groups that protect our natural environment, care for the less fortunate, and explore new and creative ways to bring change through sustainable and renewable energy and resource development. In fact, the conception of Altitude Spirits came about as Matthew pursued his interest in finding alternative fuel sources (and, well, it also came about while Matthew enjoyed vodka with good friends).

Altitude Spirits is proud to have offered our support to the following causes, charities, and community events:

• The American Red Cross
  
• The Aspen Center for Integral Health
  
• The Aspen Healthy Gourmet Fest
  
• The Basics Fund
  
• Blue Sky Bridge Child and Family Advocacy Program
  
• Boulder Business and Professional Women's Raise Your Spirits
  
• Boulder Chamber of Commerce
  
• Boulder Community Services Awards
  
• Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse
  
• Boulder Food and Wine Waiter's Race
  
• Boulder Homeless Shelter
  
• Boulder International Film Festival
  
• Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
  
• Boulder Pride LGBT Community Center
• Boulder Safehouse and Outreach
  
• Boulder Solar Week
  
• Boulder Tour of Solar and Green Built Homes
  
• Boulder Triathlon Club
• Boulder Valley Women's Heath Center
  
• BouldeReach
  
• Breckenridge Music Festival
  
• The Bus Federation
  
• Carbondale Rotary Club
  
• Center for Resource Conservation
  
• Cherry Creek Arts Festival
  
• Chris Davenport's Ski the 14ers Project
  
• Clean and Green Earth Day Fundraiser
  
• Colorado Chefs Association
  
• Colorado Cuba Humanitarian and Medical Project
  
• Colorado Environmental Coalition
  
• Colorado Film Society
  
• Colorado Foundation for Outdoor Education
  
• Colorado Fourteeners Initiative
• Colorado Haiti Project
  
• Colorado Humane Society
  
• Colorado Music Festival
  
• Colorado Saint Bernard Rescue
  
• Colorado Shakespeare Festival
  
• Community Food Share
  
• CORE
  
• Denver Art Museum
  
• Denver Art Museum CultureHaus
  
• Denver Botanical Gardens
  
• Denver Museum of Contemporary Art
  
• Denver Children's Hospital
  
• Denver International Wine Festival
  
• Denver YMCA
  
• Downtown Boulder Inc
  
• Dumb Friends League
  
• Eco-Cycle
  
• eConscious Eco Fashion Show
• Educate!
  
• Environment California Fundraiser
  
• Fiesta for the Peaks 14er's Initiative
  
• FLIC
  
• For Their Sake Fund for Children with Muscular Dystrophy
  
• Free a Child
  
• Friends of Fairview
• Gear and Cheer
  
• Girlz on Edge
  
• The Green Frontier Fest
  
• Greenworldcampaign.org
• Growe Foundation
  
• Growing Gardens
  
• Harmony Project at Sundance Film Festival
  
• Hinote's Heroes Pediatric Cancer Foundation
  
• I Have a Dream Foundation
  
• Idaho Springs Historical Society
  
• Jake Plummer Foundation
  
• Jazz Colorado Style
  
• Kaiizen Foundation
• Kempe Foundation
  
• Kick Start My Heart
  
• KDNK Community Radio
  
• KGNU Community Radio
  
• Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability
  
• Loews Celeb Pro Union/Summit and Pat Tillman Foundations
  
• The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• Lungevity
  
• MAC AIDS Fund
  
• March of Dimes
  
• Matthew Shepard Foundation A Night to Erase Hate
  
• MAX Fashion Show to benefit Volunteers of America's Brandon Center for battered women
  
• Millennium Society (Vail Valley)
• National Kidney Foundation
  
• National Sports Center for the Disabled
  
• Naturally Boulder Day
  
• Open Stage Theatre & Company
  
• Operation Frontline
  
• Operation Smile
  
• The Organic Center
  
• Parenting Place
  
• The Powder Road Book Release
• Project Angel Heart
  
• Project Green House at Sundance Film Festival
  
• RattleCan Film's Mountain Town
  
• Resource Center Greening Workshop
  
• Rocky Mountain Cancer Center
  
• Save the Rainforest of Brazil
  
• School Food Project
  
• Sean Swarner Cancer Fundraiser
  
• Shilo House
  
• Snowboard Outreach Society
  
• Society For Creative Aging
  
• Solar Week Green Builders
  
• Sustainable Living Fair
  
• Starz Denver Film Festival
  
• The Taste of Vail
  
• The Telluride AIDS Benefit
  
• T.J. Martell Foundation
  
• TJL Foundation
  
• Thorne Ecological Institute
  
• Trilogy Wine Bar Cancer Fundraiser
  
• University of Colorado Presidents Leadership Class
  
• Up the Creek Ski & Rec Club
  
• US Freeskiing Open
  
• Vail Valley Partnership
  
• Vail Valley Success Awards
  
• Women's Wilderness Institute
  
• Women's World Cup
  
• World Wildlife Fund