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OHD Norwegian Wood Vodka Norway 70 cl 41%

Item no.: 505956-498796-450-6

On the seventeenth of May Norwegians decorate with birch, and through winter they burn birch logs. The tree is woven so deeply into the country that distilling it starts to look like the obvious move. Oslo Håndverksdestilleri does exactly that, by letting the leaves ride along in the copper still.
Expert description
Norwegian Wood Birch Vodka is a Norwegian Vodka from Oslo Håndverksdestilleri, distilled from potatoes with birch leaves, meadowsweet and elderflower, bottled at 41%.
The distillery was founded in Oslo in 2015 and makes gin, aquavit and bitters alongside the vodka. The house position is that spirits need not be as neutral as possible, and that is the whole explanation for this bottle. The brief for the recipe was that it should be good enough to drink neat, have character enough to give a Martini personality, and still be mild enough to be called a vodka.
The base is potato, which supplies the creamy texture. During the final distillation three plants join the copper still. Birch leaves lend fresh herbal character, meadowsweet contributes softness and sweet tones and is called the vanilla of the Nordics for good reason, and elderflower lays the bright top notes over the top.
Meadowsweet does more than sweeten. The plant also brings a light bitterness, and that is what keeps the sweetness in check so the vodka never tips over into liqueur. The balance between the three plants is why it works in a small glass and a tall one alike.
Tasting notes
Nose
Light and floral. Fresh herbs report first, then elderflower and a trace of pear.
Palate
Creamy and round with obvious plant character. The birch gives something green, and the meadowsweet lays honey and almond underneath it.
Finish
Long and sweetish with a clear thread of vanilla and a light bitterness right at the end.
Specifications
Name: Norwegian Wood Birch Vodka
Distillery: Oslo Håndverksdestilleri
Region/Country: Oslo, Norway
Type: Norwegian Vodka
ABV: 41%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Copper still with birch leaves, meadowsweet and elderflower
EAN no.: 50701550
Serving suggestion: Neat in a small glass at cool room temperature, or in a Vodka Tonic where the elderflower gets room to move.
Flavour profile
Creamy · Herbal · Floral · Sweetish finish
Did you know?
The same vodka is sold in Norway under the name Norwegian Mood. The distillery uses both names in its own communication, so you may come across the bottle in two guises with precisely the same liquid inside.
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46,75EUR
Organic Spirits Vodka Premium Organic Nordic Vodka 40%

Item no.: 222655566589-88521

Most vodkas try to strip everything out. This one adds a single thing at the end: a distillate of Indonesian long pepper, dosed so carefully that you have to go looking for it. That decision makes an otherwise quiet bottle step forward.
Expert description
Organic Spirits Vodka is an Organic Nordic Vodka, column distilled from winter wheat and bottled at 40%.
The method is short. The winter wheat is column distilled, after which the spirit is blended with water from Kløvermarken to reach the right strength. Right at the end the vodka is seasoned with a distillate of long pepper from Indonesia — and seasoned should be taken literally, because the quantity is small enough that it never becomes a spiced vodka.
The effect is clear enough once you know what to look for. The wheat sweetness gains a warm edge and a lightly floral note that would not be there otherwise. The rest is as vodka is allowed to be: simple, elegant and with nothing to prove.
Tasting notes
Nose
Pale and light. Wheat and a suggestion of lemongrass, with a warm spiced undertone a long way back.
Palate
Silky with a clear wheat sweetness. The pepper arrives late as warmth rather than as sharpness.
Finish
Clean and medium. The spice holds on longest and leaves a pleasant warmth in the throat.
Specifications
Name: Organic Spirits Vodka
Producer: Organic Spirits
Region/Country: The Nordics
Type: Organic Nordic Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Column distilled from winter wheat
Serving suggestion: As a shot with blinis and caviar, or in an Espresso Martini or Cosmopolitan.
Flavour profile
Silky · Wheat sweet · Warm spiced · Elegant
Did you know?
Long pepper is not black pepper. It is a different plant, where the whole elongated spike is dried and used as a single piece of spice rather than as separate corns. The flavour is sweeter and more floral than black pepper, and the heat builds more slowly.
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26,75EUR
Our Vodka By Berlin Premium Vodka 35 cl 37,5%

Item no.: 22227865479-1213

Treptow is the kind of Berlin district where old industrial buildings stand shoulder to shoulder with workshops and galleries. In 2013 the first distillery in a family that has since spread across several continents opened here. Everything began in Berlin.
Expert description
Our Vodka By Berlin is a German Vodka from Our/Berlin in Treptow, bottled at 37.5%.
Our/Berlin was the prototype. When the idea of a global brand with local distilleries had to be tried out in the real world, Berlin was picked as the first city, and the whole model — micro distillery in the city centre, local partners, local ingredients and the same recipe everywhere — was tested here before London, Detroit and the rest followed.
The vodka is made from German wheat and water drawn from the ground in Treptow. The spirit is blended and hand bottled on site, and the labels go onto the bottles in the same room the production stands in. It is as much craft as manufacturing.
The site is run by Jon and Pauline, who came to the project from PR and fashion, and that has shaped where the brand ended up. Our/Berlin has become a regular in the city's fashion, music and lifestyle circles and ranks among the best selling vodkas in Berlin's airports.
Tasting notes
Nose
Soft wheat with a touch of white bread and a suggestion of anise. The aroma is low and straightforward.
Palate
Round and mild with clear grain sweetness. There is little bite, but a lightly saline note turns up towards the end.
Finish
Short and soft. The sweetness dries out slowly and only a faint warmth remains.
Specifications
Name: Our Vodka By Berlin
Distillery: Our/Berlin
Region/Country: Treptow, Berlin, Germany
Type: German Vodka
ABV: 37.5%
Size: 35 CL
Serving suggestion: Ice cold as a shot beside a beer, or in a Moscow Mule where the grain sweetness meets the ginger.
Flavour profile
Soft · Grain sweet · Mild · Lightly saline
Did you know?
Our/Vodka began as a secret project. The idea was developed in Stockholm by Åsa Caap together with colleagues from the agency Great Works, and they worked on it after hours and from their own homes for two years before Pernod Ricard approved a pilot in Berlin.
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20,00EUR
Our Vodka By Detroit Premium Vodka 37,5 cl 40%

Item no.: 2227865479-1106-197280322-135

Bagley Street sits in the part of Detroit where the brick facades carry murals and half the shopfronts have stood empty for years. Number 2545 became a distillery. Not as an investment, but as an argument that the neighbourhood was worth staying in.
Expert description
Our Vodka By Detroit is an American Vodka from Our/Detroit on Bagley Street, bottled at 40%.
Detroit came second in the line. After Berlin had shown that a micro distillery could work in the middle of a large city, Our/Detroit opened in August 2014 as the first outside Europe. The model came with it: the same recipe as the rest of the family, ingredients sourced as close by as possible, and a team of local partners with a free hand to run the brand the way they felt the city deserved.
The team behind it was local and women led, with Kate Bordine among the partners, and they chose to use the distillery as more than a production site. Mural competitions and neighbourhood events were held there, and sales were tied to the work of bringing life back to the surrounding streets.
The vodka itself is slightly stronger than its sister bottles from London and Berlin. The 40 percent gives more body and a clearer warmth, which makes it sturdier in a drink and more direct when it is served ice cold.
Tasting notes
Nose
Neutral with a pale grain character and a hint of green peel. The alcohol reads as a cool breath rather than a sting.
Palate
Firm and clean with moderate sweetness. The middle is dry, and a peppered warmth settles across the tongue.
Finish
Medium and dry. The warmth holds for a moment before everything withdraws.
Specifications
Name: Our Vodka By Detroit
Distillery: Our/Detroit
Region/Country: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Type: American Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 37.5 CL
EAN no.: 835229008816
Serving suggestion: In a Bloody Mary with plenty of horseradish, or ice cold in a shot glass alongside a burger.
Flavour profile
Dry · Firm · Peppered · Clean
Did you know?
Our/Detroit was run by a women led team — a rarity in American distilling, where women have long been heavily underrepresented among owners and production managers.
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20,00EUR
Our Vodka By London Premium Vodka 35 cl 37,5%

Item no.: 22227865479-1211

Under the railway arches at Hackney Downs the trains pass overhead every few minutes. Beneath them stands a distillery about the size of a workshop, filling vodka into bottles that look like something a milkman left on the step.
Expert description
Our Vodka By London is an English Vodka from Our/London in Hackney, bottled at 37.5%.
Our/Vodka rests on a simple idea: one global brand, but a distillery in every city, run by people who live there. The recipe is the same everywhere, while the ingredients are sourced as close by as possible and each city gets its own name on the bottle. The distilleries are small enough to sit inside the city rather than out in a field.
The London site opened in November 2015 and is run by Clive Watson, who is behind several London restaurants including Blixen, and Neil Chivers, operations director at the PR agency LD Communications with bands such as the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd on the client list. The space is production, tasting room and event venue in one.
The bottle is the same in every city: a low, broad shape with a screw cap that borrows its look from an old fashioned milk bottle. The label is pure typography and the city name. There is no decoration to hide behind, which suits a distillery under a railway bridge rather well.
Tasting notes
Nose
Clean and lightly grainy with a dry citrus tone. Something bakery like sits behind it, rather like a bowl of wheat flour.
Palate
Lighter in body than the 40 percent vodkas. Mild sweetness in the middle, after which a dry, almost chalky sensation takes over.
Finish
Short and clean with a small prick of pepper. It disappears quickly and leaves the mouth dry.
Specifications
Name: Our Vodka By London
Distillery: Our/London
Region/Country: Hackney, London, England
Type: English Vodka
ABV: 37.5%
Size: 35 CL
Serving suggestion: In a Vodka Tonic with cucumber and lemon peel, where the lower strength keeps the drink easy going.
Flavour profile
Dry · Light · Grainy · Citrus
Did you know?
The grain spirit for Our/London does not come from London but from a site just outside Birmingham. It was the closest place the team could find that could deliver the same purity every time — and they chose to be open about it rather than call everything local.
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20,00EUR
Our Vodka By Seattle Premium Vodka 37,5 cl 40%

Item no.: 2227865479-1106-197280322-136

Ballard was a fishing harbour long before it turned into a district of coffee bars and design studios. The rain still falls at the same grey pace, and the wheat still comes from the hills east of the city. That is what ends up in the bottle.
Expert description
Our Vodka By Seattle is an American Vodka from Our/Seattle in Ballard, bottled at 40%.
Seattle was the third in the family. The distillery opened in April 2015 on Market Street in the middle of Ballard, after Berlin and Detroit had shown that a distillery can sit in a shopfront and still make serious spirits. Behind the site stand Nin Truong, Christa Thomas and Stephen Pleadwell — the first two are designers and run the studio WKND in the city.
The raw material is winter wheat from the Palouse, the rolling farming region in eastern Washington where the fields run like dunes and have been worked for over a century. The wheat gives a soft spirit, which the team blends and hand bottles in Ballard following the same recipe every Our/Vodka city shares.
Bottling at 40 percent makes it a little firmer than the European releases. That suits the local drinking culture, where vodka ends up in a brunch time Bloody Mary as readily as in an evening shot glass.
Tasting notes
Nose
Clean wheat with a coolly sweet note reminiscent of fresh cut straw. A small breath of vanilla sits behind it.
Palate
Soft on entry and quickly dry. The grain fills the middle without turning sweet, and a fine mineral stripe runs through.
Finish
Clean and medium. It closes dry with a trace of white pepper.
Specifications
Name: Our Vodka By Seattle
Distillery: Our/Seattle
Region/Country: Ballard, Seattle, Washington, USA
Type: American Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 37.5 CL
EAN no.: 835229008830
Serving suggestion: In a Vodka Gimlet with fresh lime juice, or cold and neat alongside smoked salmon.
Flavour profile
Dry · Wheat soft · Mineral · Clean
Did you know?
The Palouse, where the wheat comes from, is one of the most productive grain regions in the United States. Its hills were formed by wind blown dust over thousands of years, and the soil runs so deep that the fields can be farmed without irrigation — unusual in an area with so little rainfall.
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20,00EUR
Poppins Family Original Sour Mash Vodka USA 75 cl 46,2%

Item no.: 22227865479-8875

In Bardstown, Kentucky, almost everything is about bourbon. Limestone below the ground, corn fields above it, and a mashing method handed down since the 1800s. Now and then the spirit does not go into an oak barrel but becomes vodka instead. Poppins is one of those.
Expert description
Poppins Family Original Sour Mash Vodka is an American Vodka from Willett Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, distilled from corn and rye in small batches and bottled at 46.2%.
Sour mash is the single most important trick in the bourbon world, and it is rare to meet it in a vodka. The method takes a portion of the spent, acidic mash from the previous distillation and stirs it into the new one. The acidity keeps unwanted bacteria down, the yeast gets better working conditions, and every batch carries a little of the one before. It is continuity turned into technique.
The bottling strength of 46.2% is the other clear decision. Most vodkas stop at 40%, and the extra degrees register immediately: more weight, more warmth and a plainer grain character from the corn and the rye. This is not a vodka that vanishes inside a drink.
Tasting notes
Nose
Sweet grain and a touch of vanilla. Behind it sits a dry rye spice of the kind you meet in young whiskey.
Palate
Full and broad. Corn sweetness leads, then a peppery rye note, and the alcohol gives a clear shove halfway through.
Finish
Long and dry. The warmth holds while the sweetness falls away, leaving the spice standing on its own.
Specifications
Name: Poppins Family Original Sour Mash Vodka
Distillery: Willett Distillery
Region/Country: Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
Type: American Vodka
ABV: 46.2%
Size: 75 CL
Distillation method: Sour mash, small batch
EAN no.: 680203010169
Serving suggestion: As a Screwdriver with freshly squeezed orange, or cold in a small glass alongside smoked food.
Flavour profile
Full · Grain sweet · Spicy · Powerful
Did you know?
Willett was founded in 1936 on the family farm in Bardstown, shortly after Prohibition was lifted. The distillery is still family owned, and very few bourbon houses in Kentucky can say the same.
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40,00EUR
Puffing Billy The Border Distillery England Steam Vodka 70 cl 40%

Item no.: 2222786539-10590

An old power station in Hawick is full of copper again. The town lived on tweed and wool until the mills closed, and in 2018 steam started coming out of the chimney once more. Puffing Billy is the name of the still that steam comes from.
Expert description
Puffing Billy Steam Vodka is a Scottish Vodka from The Borders Distillery in Hawick, distilled from 100% Scottish Borders malted barley and bottled at 40%.
Please note: the distillery sits in Hawick in the Scottish Borders, that is in Scotland close to the English border. Older Danish product listings have placed this vodka in England.
The barley is grown within 35 miles of the distillery, and the house does the whole job itself. First a spirit is pot-distilled from the malted barley, then the distillate takes another trip through a specially commissioned Carterhead still. That still is the one named Puffing Billy, and the bottle is named after it.
A Carterhead still is rare and normally used for gin, where botanicals hang in a basket up in the neck and meet the rising vapour. Here the basket is filled with charcoal instead. The spirit is steamed through the charcoal while still in vapour form, rather than filtered as a liquid afterwards. The house calls it steam smoothed and claims to be the only producer in the world working this way.
The point is that ordinary filtration would take the grain character with it. Because the vodka is never filtered as a liquid, the malt is still in the glass and the texture is distinctly creamy. This is a vodka with something to say, even on its own.
Tasting notes
Nose
Surprisingly fruity for a vodka. Tropical fruit and citrus peel sit on top, with a soft malted layer underneath.
Palate
Creamy and round. Foam banana and a light vanilla sweetness from the barley, followed by a point of white pepper.
Finish
Medium and soft. The grain sweetness slides away slowly and leaves a clean, almost milky impression behind.
Specifications
Name: Puffing Billy Steam Vodka
Distillery: The Borders Distillery
Region/Country: Hawick, Scottish Borders, Scotland
Type: Scottish Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Pot distilled from malted barley and redistilled in a Carterhead still, steamed through charcoal, unfiltered
EAN no.: 5060395417246
Serving suggestion: Neat over ice, in an Espresso Martini where the creamy texture carries the coffee, or in a mule with apple juice and ginger beer.
Flavour profile
Creamy · Malted · Tropical fruit · Unfiltered
Did you know?
The Borders Distillery occupies the town's nineteenth-century electricity works and was the first malt whisky distillery in the Scottish Borders for almost two hundred years. The region had not had a single one since 1837.
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Radius Tincture Vodka Organic Premium Danish Vodka 100 cl 96%

Item no.: 2222555-779

96% is not a number anyone picks for comfort. It is the strength an ordinary distillation column can actually reach, and it belongs in one place in the kitchen: with whoever needs the last of what a root, a bark or a lump of resin has to give.
Please note: This item does not come in a glass bottle but in a square 1 litre plastic jerrycan (UN approved) with a 32 mm cap. The content has a very high alcohol strength, is readily flammable and must be kept away from children and open flames.
Expert description
Radius Tinktur Vodka Økologisk 96% is an Organic Danish Vodka from Radius Distillery at Oremandsgaard estate, bottled at 96% in a one litre container.
It is the strongest thing the house makes, and it is meant as an ingredient rather than a drink. Where 60% is a ready-mixed extraction base, 96% is a starting point you assemble yourself: you decide how much water goes in, and with that which compounds come out of the plant.
That matters for everything that does not give up easily. Resins, propolis, vanilla pods, dry roots and bark need a high alcohol share before anything happens at all. In return the recipe has to be followed: too much alcohol can precipitate mucilage and pectin instead of extracting them, and the yield suffers.
The base is organic and distilled clean, so it does not lay its own flavour on top of whatever you are working with. Radius Distillery gathers its raw materials within the shortest possible distance of the still house at Oremandsgaard estate — hence the name — and spends most of the year on gin, aquavit, liqueur and whisky.
Tasting notes
Nose
Piercing and almost colourless in aroma. There is no fusel and nothing sweet, only clean ethanol with a faint mineral trace behind it.
Palate
Cannot be judged undiluted. Brought down to drinking strength with water, it shows a dry, straightforward profile with a faint sweet edge and no rough corners.
Finish
Clean and quick. The heat lets go fast and leaves no off note behind to disturb the herbs.
Specifications
Name: Radius Tinktur Vodka Økologisk
Producer: Radius Distillery
Region/Country: Oremandsgaard, Southern Zealand, Denmark
Type: Organic Danish Vodka
ABV: 96%
Size: 100 CL
EAN no.: 5714474000163
Serving suggestion: Not to be drunk neat. Use it for herbal extraction or dilute it to whatever strength your recipe calls for.
Flavour profile
Neutral · Extremely powerful · Clean · Organic
Did you know?
96% is not a marketing figure but a physical limit. Ethanol and water form an azeotrope at around 96 percent by volume, where vapour and liquid share the same composition. Ordinary distillation cannot climb past that point, however many times the spirit is run through.
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60,25EUR
Radius Vodka Tinktur Organic Premium Danish Vodka 100 cl 60% alcohol

Item no.: 2222555-778

There is no chilled bottle here and no finely moulded stopper. There is a jerrycan, a screw cap and a content chosen for what it can pull out of a handful of dried plants. Radius Tinktur was built for the kitchen table, not the display cabinet.
Please note: This item does not come in a glass bottle but in a square 1 litre plastic jerrycan (UN approved) with a 32 mm cap. The content has a very high alcohol strength and must be kept away from children and open flames.
Expert description
Radius Tinktur Vodka Økologisk 60% is an Organic Danish Vodka from Radius Distillery at Oremandsgaard estate, bottled at 60% in a one litre container.
Radius Distillery sits in the middle of the estate near Præstø in southern Zealand and takes its name from its own working method: raw materials are gathered within the shortest possible radius of the still house. Day to day the house concentrates on gin, aquavit, liqueur and whisky, and the distiller works with the laboratory tape measure in one hand and his nose in the other.
This release is not meant as a sipping vodka. A tincture is an alcohol extraction, and strength decides what comes across. Water pulls out tannins, acids and plant mucilage, while alcohol takes the essential oils, resins and bitter compounds. At 60% you get both at once, which is exactly why so many herbal recipes settle at that level.
The base should keep quiet. It is distilled clean enough that lemon balm tastes of lemon balm rather than of spirit, and the organic certification means no residues travel from the field into the jar. Caraway, sea buckthorn and horsetail are among the plants it is regularly put to work on.
Tasting notes
Nose
Sharp and clear. Behind the alcohol lies a slender sweetness and a mineral trace, but there is no fusel weight.
Palate
Burning undiluted. Bring the strength down with water and a mild grain sweetness unfolds, leaving the mouth dry and smooth rather than oily.
Finish
Short and warm. It clears quickly without leaving an off note, which is the whole point of an extraction base.
Specifications
Name: Radius Tinktur Vodka Økologisk
Producer: Radius Distillery
Region/Country: Oremandsgaard, Southern Zealand, Denmark
Type: Organic Danish Vodka
ABV: 60%
Size: 100 CL
Serving suggestion: Intended as an extraction base for herbs. If it goes in a glass, dilute it heavily with water or ice.
Flavour profile
Neutral · Clean · Powerful · Organic
Did you know?
Oremandsgaard has been farmed organically since 1967. The estate converted long before the word became common in Danish supermarkets, and that is the soil the distillery draws its raw materials from.
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40,00EUR
Rammstein Export Edition German Vodka 70 cl 40%

Item no.: 22227865480-67093-0190

Not many bands have ended up with their own spirits range. Rammstein have a whole series, and the vodka is the most sober of them: wheat, several distillations and a black bottle without a single apology on the label.
Expert description
Rammstein Export Edition Vodka is a German Vodka made from wheat, distilled several times in Germany and bottled at 40%.
The series came out of a collaboration between the band and the Danish spirits house 1423 World Class Spirits, founded in 2008 and built around finding and releasing spirits from across the world. The band members took part in choosing what could carry the name, and beyond the vodka the range covers rum and whiskey among others.
The wheat sets the direction you can taste. Wheat-based vodka usually carries a softer, faintly sweeter character than the rye-based bottles from Poland, and repeated distillation pulls it further towards clean. The result is a vodka built to be mixed, not to be studied for hours.
Tasting notes
Nose
Neutral at first meeting. There is a faint sweet grain note and a touch of citrus, but the nose keeps a low profile.
Palate
Soft and smooth with a mild wheat sweetness. The alcohol reads as a clean, dry warmth without sharp edges.
Finish
Short and dry. The sweetness lets go quickly and only a light peppery impression stays behind.
Specifications
Name: Rammstein Export Edition Vodka
Producer: 1423 World Class Spirits
Region/Country: Germany
Type: German Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Multiple distilled from wheat
Edition: Export Edition
EAN no.: 5712718004359
Serving suggestion: Ice cold as a shot, or in a Moscow Mule where ginger and lime take the lead.
Flavour profile
Clean · Soft · Lightly grain sweet · Dry finish
Did you know?
The bottles are filled by hand in small batches in Berlin. That is also the city where the band came together, so the label points back to the place the whole story started.
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50,75EUR
Reyka Premium Iceland Vodka Small Batch 70 cl 40%

Item no.: 22227865479-1233

Borgarnes sits on a fjord halfway up the west coast of Iceland, lava fields on one side and the Atlantic on the other. The air is so clean it is hard to describe to anyone who has not stood in it. The distillery here runs on steam from the volcanoes underground and filters its vodka through the stone those same volcanoes spat out.
Expert description
Reyka Small Batch is an Icelandic Vodka from Reyka in Borgarnes, distilled from grain and spring water running through a 4,000 year old lava field, bottled at 40%.
The interesting part of Reyka is the still. The distillery works with a Carter-Head still, a type only a handful of which survive anywhere in the world, and it is packed with copper. The copper strips out sulphur and the heaviest alcohols on the way through, which is why Reyka can get away with a single distillation where others run the spirit through a column five or six times. Character is kept rather than polished off.
The water comes from a spring running through a lava field around 4,000 years old, containing almost no minerals. After distillation the spirit is filtered through lava rock, which is porous in a different way from activated charcoal and leaves the vodka crisp rather than softly rounded. Batches are small, and each distillation takes about five hours.
The result is not a neutral vodka. There is clear citrus on the nose, a spiced edge mid palate, and the alcohol shows up as a warmth that burns a little. Some would call that imperfect, others would call it character. Reyka belongs in the second camp, and that is why it holds its ground in drinks where a wholly characterless vodka simply vanishes.
Tasting notes
Nose
Plenty of citrus, mostly lemon peel with a trace of grapefruit. Beneath that sits a clean, cool minerality with no sweetness.
Palate
Classic grain vodka with a clear citrus streak and a spiced edge of white pepper. The alcohol burns a little and gives a drink something to stand on.
Finish
Spiced and dry, medium length. The citrus holds longest while the pepper slowly withdraws.
Specifications
Name: Reyka Small Batch
Distillery: Reyka
Region/Country: Borgarnes, Iceland
Type: Icelandic Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Single distillation in a Carter-Head still, filtered through lava rock
Serving suggestion: Ice cold and neat in a small glass, or in a Moscow Mule where the citrus meets the ginger.
Flavour profile
Citrus · Spiced · Mineral · Crisp
Did you know?
Reyka's master distiller is called Þórður Sigurðsson, and he also looks after the village fire engine and police car. In a coastal town of a couple of thousand people there is no room for only doing one thing.
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40,00EUR
Riga Black Vodka Latvia 70 cl 40%

Item no.: 505956-498796-451-2

A griffin sits in the coat of arms of Riga, half lion and half eagle, and it has followed the brand onto the label. Behind it stands a distillery that has worked in the city since 1900 and still runs its vodka through both charcoal and silver before it reaches the bottle.
Expert description
Riga Black Vodka is a Latvian Vodka from Latvijas Balzams in Riga, distilled from wheat and rye and bottled at 40%.
Latvijas Balzams dates back to 1900 and today belongs to Amber Beverage Group. The house is best known for Riga Black Balsam, but the vodka is made at the same address, and the two products share both a name and the griffin on the label.
The spirit comes from selected wheat and rye, run up to five times through copper stills. Artesian spring water is then added, meaning water from a sealed aquifer that pushes itself up under its own pressure. The filtration is the pride of the house: seven stages, with both activated black charcoal and silver ions in play.
The rye is the reason it does not simply turn soft. The wheat lays down a round, creamy texture while the rye sends spice into the finish. Aniseed and pepper hold on after the sweetness lets go, and that combination is what makes the bottle useful for more than disappearing into juice.
Tasting notes
Nose
Clean and cool with a light dark rye bread note. A trace of aniseed sits in the background.
Palate
Creamy and soft on the attack, after which the rye spice takes over. Aniseed, white pepper and a dry grain note share the middle between them.
Finish
Medium and spiced. The pepper hangs on and delivers a warmth more obvious than on most pure wheat vodkas.
Specifications
Name: Riga Black Vodka
Producer: Latvijas Balzams
Region/Country: Riga, Latvia
Type: Latvian Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Copper stills, seven stage filtration with black charcoal and silver
EAN no.: 4750021201349
Serving suggestion: Ice cold in a small glass, or in a Bloody Mary where the rye pepper meets the spices.
Flavour profile
Creamy · Spiced · Aniseed and pepper · Clean close
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The same house makes Riga Black Balsam, a herbal bitter with 24 ingredients and a recipe traced back to 1752. Its black ceramic bottle is still the most recognisable in Latvia, and the rest of the Riga Black family is named after it.
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Russian Standard Platinum Original Russian Premium Vodka 70 cl 40%

Item no.: 22266699--9632

A standard for Russian vodka was set in 1894, and everyone has had to measure up to it since. Russian Standard took the name literally. Platinum is the taut version of the house style, where the spirit gets one extra pass through the filters before it reaches the bottle.
Expert description
Russian Standard Platinum is a Russian Vodka from St Petersburg, distilled from Russian winter wheat and bottled at 40%.
The house was founded in 1998 by Roustam Tariko, and in 2006 a large distillery was completed in St Petersburg. The wheat is winter wheat from the Russian steppes, sown in autumn and left in the ground through the cold before harvest. The water is soft glacial water from Lake Ladoga, north-east of the city and the largest lake in Europe.
What separates Platinum from the house Original lies in the filtration. After the usual charcoal filtration the spirit is run through silver. Silver is far less common than charcoal in vodka production, and the house uses the step to catch the last impurities the charcoal has let through.
You notice it in the texture. Where Original keeps a clearer grain bite, Platinum feels denser and more polished, without the wheat being polished away altogether. Nothing is added to soften it; the work sits in the distillation and the two filtration stages.
Tasting notes
Nose
Clean and reserved with a pale grain note. A trace of lemon peel and something close to freshly laundered linen.
Palate
Dense and oily. The wheat lays down a dry sweetness, a fine thread of aniseed appears mid-palate, and only then does the pepper report for duty.
Finish
Medium and dry. The warmth stays put for a moment, and at the very end the grain stands alone.
Specifications
Name: Russian Standard Platinum
Distillery: Russian Standard
Region/Country: St Petersburg, Russia
Type: Russian Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Charcoal filtered and then silver filtered
EAN no.: 4603400000180
Serving suggestion: Ice cold in a small glass alongside something salty and rich, or in a Martini where the purity has room.
Flavour profile
Clean · Dense · Dry grain note · Lightly peppered
Did you know?
The 1894 standard is often tied to the chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, the man behind the periodic table. He did work on mixtures of alcohol and water, and his name has followed Russian vodka ever since, regardless of how much can genuinely be credited to him.
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Silvio Carta Vodka Italy 70 cl 40%

Item no.: 22227865491-20078

Just north of Oristano lies Zeddiani, a village on the flat west coast of Sardinia. The Carta family have worked with wine here since the 1950s. The vodka is a late chapter in a story that began with an entirely different glass.
Expert description
Silvio Carta Vodka is an Italian Vodka from Silvio Carta in Zeddiani on Sardinia, bottled at 40%.
The company was founded by Silvio Carta himself in the early 1950s in Baratili San Pietro in the province of Oristano, and the starting point was Vernaccia di Oristano — the oxidative white wine that is the great classic of the island. Only at the end of the 1970s did Silvio and his son Elio build a distillery alongside the winemaking.
That distillery has since grown into one of the most respected on Sardinia. The house is known above all for mirto, the dark red myrtle berry liqueur, and for gin, vermouth and amaro made from the herbs of the island. The vodka is the quiet one in the company: full and complex, yet round and soft with a clear mark of dried fruit.
Tasting notes
Nose
Discreet and warm. Dried figs and raisins sit below the surface alongside a pale grain note.
Palate
Round and full with a sweetness that leans towards dried fruit. The alcohol carries without stabbing.
Finish
Medium and soft. The fruit sweetness falls away slowly and leaves something nutty and dry.
Specifications
Name: Silvio Carta Vodka
Producer: Silvio Carta
Region/Country: Zeddiani, Sardinia, Italy
Type: Italian Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 70 CL
Serving suggestion: Neat and lightly chilled in a tulip glass, or in a Vodka Martini where the fruit notes get room.
Flavour profile
Round · Full · Dried fruit · Soft
Did you know?
Silvio Carta have also turned their hand to whisky made on Sardinia. It remains a rarity on the island, where the distilling tradition otherwise revolves around myrtle berries, herbs and wine.
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40,00EUR
Skyy Vodka USA Premium vodka 70 cl 40%

Item no.: 2222555554-3333587

San Francisco, 1992. An inventor with not a single day of drinks trade behind him decided a vodka ought to be distilled until there was almost nothing left to strip away. The cobalt blue bottle that came out of the experiment still sits on back bars all over the world.
Expert description
Skyy Vodka is an American Vodka from San Francisco, distilled four times from American grain and bottled at 40%.
The man behind it was Maurice Kanbar, an inventor and businessman long before he was a vodka producer. When he put Skyy Vodka on the market in 1992 it arrived as the first quadruple-distilled and triple-filtered vodka in the United States. The thinking was simple: every extra pass through the column leaves less of the heavier compounds that otherwise show up in the nose as harshness.
The grain is grown in the United States, the filtration happens three times, and the water comes from the west coast. The brand now belongs to Gruppo Campari, the Italian house behind Campari and Aperol, so a vodka born in San Francisco has ended up in an Italian portfolio.
The character is neutral in the best sense of the word. There are no edges, no bitterness, and only a faint grain note holds on once the vodka meets ice and citrus. That is exactly why it has survived three decades of shifting cocktail fashion: it lets the other ingredients do the talking.
Tasting notes
Nose
Cool and almost tight-lipped. A pale grain note sits there with a faint sweetness, and no alcohol prickle at all.
Palate
Smooth and lightly oily. The grain gives a discreet sweetness, and halfway across the mouth a saline, mineral pull appears before a mild pepper edge rounds things off.
Finish
Short and dry. It lets go quickly and leaves behind neither bitterness nor burn.
Specifications
Name: Skyy Vodka
Producer: Skyy Vodka
Region/Country: San Francisco, USA
Type: American Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Quadruple distilled, triple filtered
Serving suggestion: Ice cold in a small glass, or as the base of a Cosmopolitan or Moscow Mule where lime and ginger get room to work.
Flavour profile
Neutral · Smooth · Lightly mineral · Discreetly grain-sweet
Did you know?
In 2021 Skyy Vodka was relaunched with water enriched with Pacific Minerals, drawn from the coastal waters around San Francisco. That is an unusual move in a trade where most producers head the other way and take as much out of the water as they possibly can.
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Smirnoff No. 55 Black Premium Vodka 70 cl 40%

Item no.: 22227865479-1106-197207

Fife is not the first place you connect with Russian vodka. Yet on the river Leven stands Cameronbridge, a grain distillery laid out in 1824, where spirit has run without a break for two centuries. The black Smirnoff is made here, a long way from Moscow and close to the North Sea.
Expert description
Smirnoff No. 55 Black Premium Vodka is a British Vodka made from wheat, handled small batch in a copper pot still and bottled at 40%.
The bottle is meant as a nod to the vodka the house made before it became a worldwide bar standard. Pyotr Smirnov started out in Moscow in the 1860s, and back then the spirit went through copper rather than endless ranks of charcoal filters. The copper pot still used for No. 55 is over 150 years old and dates from exactly that period.
Small batch is not decoration on the label here. Batches are kept small enough for the still to handle the whole volume, and the spirit is then given a single pass through birch charcoal. By comparison, the red No. 21 is cleaned again and again until it is as neutral as the technique allows. The black one is permitted to keep some of the grain.
You notice it plainly in the mouth. The vodka is round and warm rather than sharp, carries an oily weight across the tongue and closes with a spiced pull. It is built to be drunk neat and with food, not to be buried under tomato juice.
Tasting notes
Nose
Warm and round. Baked wheat bread and a suggestion of liquorice root, over a layer of toasted almond.
Palate
Full and oily. The grain sweetness sits heavily in the middle, and a dry spiced nudge arrives towards the end to cut through it.
Finish
A soft close with warmth rather than bite. Liquorice and white pepper hold longest.
Specifications
Name: Smirnoff No. 55 Black Premium Vodka
Producer: Smirnoff
Region/Country: Fife, Scotland
Type: British Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Small batch in copper pot still, filtered once through birch charcoal
EAN no.: 5410316265164
Serving suggestion: Cool and neat alongside rich, salty food, or in a Vodka Martini with very little vermouth.
Flavour profile
Round · Warm · Oily · Spiced
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Cameronbridge got its own bioenergy plant in 2013 and became the first distillery in the world to combine biomass combustion with water recovery and anaerobic digestion. The plant covers most of the energy the site uses. Your bottle of vodka was, in other words, cooked on the distillery's own waste.
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Smirnoff Red Triple Distilled Premium Vodka 100 cl 37,5%

Item no.: 22227865479-7141

Some bottles stand at the front of the window. Others stand at the front of the speed rail. The litre bottle with the red shield belongs firmly to the second group. It gets lifted, poured and put back a hundred times in an evening without anyone giving it a thought. It was built to work.
Expert description
Smirnoff Red Triple Distilled Premium Vodka 100 cl is a British Vodka made from grain, triple distilled and bottled at 37.5%.
Behind the label sits recipe number 21, the one the whole house rests on. Grain neutral spirit is rectified in column, cut back with demineralised water and then sent through seven columns of activated charcoal. Filtration can take up to eight hours, and the spirit passes roughly seven tonnes of charcoal before it is brought down to bottling strength.
The process removes rather than adds, and that is the entire point. The litre format is built for many glasses rather than one, and it behaves itself in everything from a Moscow Mule to a Bloody Mary. If you are drinking it neat, keep it cold. Warmth pulls the pepper forward at the expense of the grain.
Tasting notes
Nose
Almost silent on the first pass. Stay with it and a dry chalky note appears, along with a trace of black pepper.
Palate
Light and clean. The grain shows as a thin ribbon of sweetness through the middle before the pepper takes over.
Finish
Short, dry and peppery. It lets go quickly, which is a virtue in a bottle meant for mixing.
Specifications
Name: Smirnoff Red Triple Distilled Premium Vodka 100 cl
Producer: Smirnoff
Region/Country: United Kingdom
Type: British Vodka
ABV: 37.5%
Size: 100 CL
Distillation method: Triple distilled and charcoal filtered
EAN no.: 5410316442930
Serving suggestion: A Moscow Mule with ginger beer and lime, or ice cold in a Bloody Mary.
Flavour profile
Neutral · Dry · Peppery · Built for mixing
Did you know?
In August 1952 the British drinks house Gilbey took on the right to make and sell Smirnoff in Britain. European Smirnoff has had a British address ever since, and the litre bottle on the shelf has never been anywhere near Moscow.
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26,75EUR
Smirnoff Red Triple Distilled Premium Vodka 70 cl 37,5%

Item no.: 505956-498796-453-5

No other spirits bottle has been poured this many times. The red label stands behind a bar in Tokyo, in a kitchen cupboard in Jutland and on a shelf in a ferry kiosk somewhere in the Baltic. Seventy centilitres of something made as neutral as it can possibly be, which is exactly why it fits in everywhere.
Expert description
Smirnoff Red Triple Distilled Premium Vodka 70 cl is a British Vodka made from grain, triple distilled and bottled at 37.5%.
This is the best-selling vodka in the world and the largest premium spirits brand on the planet. The recipe carries the number 21, and the distillate is filtered ten times through charcoal before it reaches the bottle. All of that work is about removal: fusel oils, heavier alcohols and any other residue that might hand the contents a personality.
Neutrality is rarely something you praise a spirit for, but here it is the design. The 70 cl bottle is the one the rest of the vodka shelf gets measured against, and it is also the one a large share of the classic vodka drinks were originally built around. It pushes back at neither tomato juice, coffee liqueur nor tonic.
Tasting notes
Nose
Very reserved. A cool chalk impression and a suggestion of charcoal if you give it time in the glass.
Palate
Mineral and light. Cracked black pepper through the middle and a flick of peppermint freshness that leaves as fast as it arrived.
Finish
Dry and peppery with a trace of chargrilled pepper. Short, but broader than you would expect.
Specifications
Name: Smirnoff Red Triple Distilled Premium Vodka 70 cl
Producer: Smirnoff
Region/Country: United Kingdom
Type: British Vodka
ABV: 37.5%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Triple distilled and charcoal filtered
EAN no.: 5011013400157
Serving suggestion: A Vodka Tonic with lime, or ice cold in a classic Vodka Martini.
Flavour profile
Clean · Mineral · Lightly peppery · Neutral
Did you know?
When the Bolsheviks seized the family distillery in Moscow in 1917, Vladimir Smirnov escaped the firing squad and fled through Constantinople to France. Outside Paris he built a new, small distillery and gave the family name a French twist. That is why the label reads Smirnoff and not Smirnov.
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Sobieski Estate Vodka Single Rye Polish Vodka 100 cl 40%

Item no.: 22227865479-1106-197279966

Some bottles get saved for occasions and some simply need to be there. A litre in the freezer belongs to the second group. It comes out for guests, for the fish on Saturday and for the glass nobody had planned on.
Expert description
Sobieski Estate Vodka Single Rye is a Polish Vodka made from pure Dankowskie rye, bottled at 40% in a 100 cl bottle.
The litre is the format that makes sense if the vodka is meant to be used. Sobieski is built to be poured rather than admired: the label is plain, the glass is simple, and the priority clearly sits with what is inside. That is the same line the house has held since it dropped the idea that more distillations automatically mean better vodka.
The grain is Dankowskie rye from Polish fields, and there is nothing else in it. Rye brings a bread and pepper signature that a wheat vodka never reaches, and because the spirit runs only once through the forty metre house column, that character stays put. The water comes from Oligocene springs.
At this size it also becomes a different sort of bottle behind a bar. There is enough for a round of shots, a jug of Bloody Mary and the everyday alternative to gin in the same week without a trip to restock. The rye survives being mixed with strong things and does not vanish behind tomato, ginger or horseradish.
Tasting notes
Nose
Dry grain and baker's dough, with a breath of aniseed over the top. The aroma is restrained and does not close up even when the glass is cold.
Palate
Firm and dry. The rye sits mid mouth as crust and flour, and a peppery warmth rises slowly from behind.
Finish
Clean and medium. The warmth falls away evenly and leaves a dry, faintly salted impression.
Specifications
Name: Sobieski Estate Vodka Single Rye
Distillery: Destylarnia Sobieski
Region/Country: Starogard Gdański, Poland
Type: Polish Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 100 CL
Distillation method: Single distilled in the tallest column in Poland
EAN no.: 5900226006860
Serving suggestion: Straight from the freezer into frozen glasses at the table, or in a Vodka Gimlet where the rye spice meets the lime.
Flavour profile
Dry · Peppery · Grainy · Direct
Did you know?
The word vodka first appears in writing in 1405, in a document from Sandomierz in Poland. There it did not describe a drink but medicine and cosmetics — the glass came later.
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38,75EUR
Sobieski Estate Vodka Single Rye Polish Vodka 70 cl 37,5%

Item no.: 22227865479-1106-1972500

A rye field in northern Poland looks like very little in August. The ears are long, thin and slightly unruly, and the yield falls short of wheat. Dankowskie gets planted anyway, and there is a reason somebody keeps holding on to it.

Expert description

Sobieski Estate Vodka Single Rye is a Polish Vodka distilled exclusively from Dankowskie rye and bottled at 40%.

Dankowskie is an old Polish rye variety picked for flavour rather than for yield. It gives less per hectare than modern strains, but it carries a spiced, almost bready character across into the spirit, and that is the entire point of a single rye. There is no other grain in the bottle, no wheat to round the corners off.

The distillery sits in Starogard Gdański and counts among the oldest working spirit plants in Poland, with roots back to 1846. The rye runs through the house column, which at close to forty metres is the tallest in the country, and it passes through only once. One long run cleans the spirit without tearing the grain character out of it.

You notice it straight away. Sobieski Estate has not been polished down to flavourless neutrality; it lands somewhere between the clean bar vodka and the rustic old-school Polish bottlings. In the 70 cl format it is easy to keep in the freezer and pour from whenever a glass needs something spiced.

Tasting notes

Nose

Dry rye and a touch of dill. Behind it sits something mineral, close to wet flint.

Palate

Clean and angular. The grain arrives as flour and crust before a clear white pepper settles across the tongue.

Finish

Medium and dry. The pepper holds, and a faint nutty note turns up right at the very end.

Specifications

Name: Sobieski Estate Vodka Single Rye
Distillery: Destylarnia Sobieski
Region/Country: Starogard Gdański, Poland
Type: Polish Vodka
ABV: 37,5%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Single distilled in the tallest column in Poland
EAN no.: 5900226005634
Serving suggestion: Ice cold in a small glass with smoked fish, or in a Polish Mule with ginger beer and lime.

Flavour profile

Dry · Spiced · Bready · Mineral

Did you know?

There is a hall in the Vatican Museums called the Sala Sobieski. It is named after King Jan III Sobieski and dominated by Jan Matejko's enormous painting of the relief of Vienna in 1683 — the king this bottle carries the name of.

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Sobieski Herb de Pologne Premium Vodka 100% Pure Rye Polish Vodka 40%

Item no.: 22244444555-99875

A single blade lies across the inside of the bottle. It is not decoration added afterwards — it is the whole reason the liquid shifts colour in the light and smells of something between new-mown hay and baked apple.
Expert description
Sobieski Herb de Pologne is a Polish Vodka made from pure Dankowskie rye, flavoured with bison grass and herbs and bottled at 40%.
The name translates literally as herb of Poland. The base is the same rye the house uses across its range: Dankowskie, grown in Poland and run once through the column at Starogard Gdański. On top of that sits an infusion of bison grass together with other natural herbs, and every bottle gets a blade of its own.
Bison grass is Hierochloe odorata in Latin and grows on damp meadows and forest clearings in eastern Poland. The scent comes from coumarin, the same compound that makes new-mown hay and woodruff smell the way they do. That is why the vodka does not taste floral but green, dry and lightly baked.
The herbs carry it further than a plain grass vodka. Creamy vanilla sits under the grassy note, with rosemary, lavender and a clear knock of black pepper above it. The rye holds the whole thing together from below, so the bottle turns neither perfumed nor sweet.
Tasting notes
Nose
New-mown hay and woodruff, with a breath of baked apple and dried flowers behind.
Palate
Soft and grassy with creamy vanilla through the middle. Rosemary and lavender appear at the edges before black pepper cuts across.
Finish
Dry and long. The grass lingers, and at the end the rye is left standing as flour and pepper.
Specifications
Name: Sobieski Herb de Pologne
Distillery: Destylarnia Sobieski
Region/Country: Starogard Gdański, Poland
Type: Polish Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Single distilled in the tallest column in Poland and flavoured with bison grass
Serving suggestion: With cold clear apple juice and a squeeze of lime, or ice cold and neat in a small glass with smoked cheese.
Flavour profile
Grassy · Herbal · Vanilla soft · Peppery
Did you know?
Bison grass takes its name from the European bison that graze on it in the Polish forests. The plant is also called sweetgrass and has been used for incense and basket weaving in several cultures, long before anyone thought of putting it in a bottle.
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Spirit of Hven Swedish Organic Vodka 50 cl 40%

Item no.: 22227865479-1106-197280179

Ven sits in the middle of the Öresund strait, a flat patch of land with slopes falling to the water and some of the best farmland in Sweden. A couple of hundred people live there. There is also a distillery that calls itself the smallest pot still distillery in the world, and which grows its grain within sight of the still.
Expert description
Spirit of Hven Swedish Organic Vodka is a Swedish Organic Vodka made from certified organic grain, rested in oak casks, redistilled and bottled at 40%.
The unusual part is in that sentence. The vodka is not bottled straight off the still but first spends between six and twenty-four months in oak casks. It is then distilled again, and it is that second pass which removes the colour while the texture and part of the cask character stay behind. The result is a vodka that is crystal clear in the glass but behaves fuller than its colour suggests.
The distillery was founded in 2008 by Henric and Anja Molin, and Henric Molin still runs the distillation. The house keeps both a laboratory and its own hotel, and the technical level is high: distillation is deliberately run below the 96.5% a column can reach, because those final percentage points are exactly where the aroma compounds live.
The grain is certified organic and sourced as locally as possible. The island soil shifts from mineral rich clay in the north to sand in the south, and the microclimate that comes from lying between two coasts is part of the explanation for how somewhere this small can ship spirits to more than 40 countries.
Tasting notes
Nose
Soft and lightly sweet. Vanilla first, clearly from the cask, then a pale grain note and a suggestion of dried hay.
Palate
Full and round without being heavy. The vanilla continues, the grain gives a mild sweetness, and a lightly spiced warmth sits underneath.
Finish
Medium length and dry. The vanilla lingers longest and the close is soft rather than sharp.
Specifications
Name: Spirit of Hven Swedish Organic Vodka
Distillery: Spirit of Hven
Region/Country: Ven, Skåne, Sweden
Type: Swedish Organic Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 50 CL
Distillation method: Pot distilled, rested in oak casks and then redistilled
EAN no.: 7350044859021
Serving suggestion: Cool and neat in a small glass with shellfish, or in a Martini where the vanilla gets room.
Flavour profile
Vanilla · Soft · Full · Lightly spiced
Did you know?
Ven is the island where Tycho Brahe built his observatory Uraniborg in the sixteenth century and mapped the night sky with the naked eye. The distillery has folded his legacy into its naming: the house Single Malt Whisky is called Tycho's Star, after the new star he observed and described.
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Stolichnaya Rasberry Flavored Ultra Premium Vodka 70 cl 37,5%

Item no.: 22227865479-1102

Raspberries are hard to pin down. Fresh off the cane they are tart with a green edge; cooked down into jam they turn dark, round and almost syrupy. This bottle sits closer to the pan than to the cane, and that is a deliberate choice.
Expert description
Stolichnaya Raspberry Flavored, known as Stoli Razberi, is a Latvian Vodka made from wheat and rye with raspberry flavour, bottled at 37.5%.
The flavour range drove the house for years. When bartenders in the 1990s started building drinks around colour and fruit rather than dry classics, Stolichnaya already had a shelf of expressions ready, and the raspberry became the most asked for of the lot.
The base is the same as everything else in the range. Wheat and rye go through columns, get blended with Latvian artesian water and filtered through quartz sand, birch charcoal and woven cloth. Production sits at Latvijas Balzams in Riga, not in Russia, however much the name pulls that way.
The raspberry is added after distillation. That means the fruit lives in the aroma and the front of the palate while the rye still registers behind it as a dry streak. It is exactly that combination that stops the bottle collapsing into sweetness once you mix it with cranberry or lemon.
Tasting notes
Nose
Raspberry jam and boiled sweets, with a twist of lemon peel at the edge. The aroma is sweeter than the palate promises.
Palate
Full berry with a creamy texture. Halfway through, the grain arrives as a dry, spiced streak, and there is more acidity than the nose suggests.
Finish
Short to medium. The sweetness lets go quickly and leaves a faint stalky bitterness from the fruit.
Specifications
Name: Stolichnaya Raspberry Flavored
Producer: Stoli Group
Region/Country: Riga, Latvia
Type: Latvian Vodka
ABV: 37.5%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Column distilled and filtered through quartz sand, birch charcoal and woven cloth
EAN no.: 4750021000256
Serving suggestion: In a Cosmopolitan instead of clear vodka, or ice cold with sparkling water and a few fresh raspberries.
Flavour profile
Raspberry sweet · Tart · Creamy · Short
Did you know?
Stoli Razberi passed a million cases sold in a year in 2004, the first expression in the house flavour range to get there. The range now runs to more than a dozen variants, from jalapeño to salted caramel.
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Stolichnaya The Original Premium Vodka 70 cl 38%

Item no.: 22227865479-7115

A red band, gold script and a drawing of a hotel by Red Square. The label has barely moved since the 1950s, and it has become one of the most recognisable pieces of graphic design in the whole drinks trade. The bottle behind it is filled in Riga today.
Expert description
Stolichnaya The Original is a Latvian Vodka made from wheat and rye, bottled at 38%.
The recipe comes out of the Soviet era. The trademark was registered in 1938, and in 1953 the vodka was shown at the international trade fair in Bern, where it took a gold medal. After the Soviet Union broke up, the rights ended in a dispute between the Russian state and SPI Group, and the result is that two Stolichnaya bottles exist in the world: one for the Russian market and one for the rest of us.
The one you find here comes from Latvijas Balzams in Riga, where SPI Group placed its production. Wheat and rye run through columns, the spirit is blended with Latvian artesian water and filtered first through quartz sand, then through birch charcoal and finally through woven cloth. Since 2022 the raw spirit has been sourced outside Russia.
The rye is what sets it apart from the many pure wheat vodkas. It gives a bready, lightly peppery character that keeps the bottle from being wholly neutral, and it is the reason the vodka still turns up in everything from a Bloody Mary to a shot alongside pickled herring.
Tasting notes
Nose
Fresh rye crust and a hint of aniseed. A light sweetness sits underneath and only steps forward once the glass has rested.
Palate
Dry and direct. The grain fills the middle with something floury before a clear stripe of pepper rises and takes over.
Finish
Medium and warm. The pepper stays at the back of the mouth, and a touch of lemon peel turns up right at the end.
Specifications
Name: Stolichnaya The Original
Producer: Stoli Group
Region/Country: Riga, Latvia
Type: Latvian Vodka
ABV: 38%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Column distilled and filtered through quartz sand, birch charcoal and woven cloth
EAN no.: 4750021000126
Serving suggestion: Ice cold in a small glass with herring and rye bread, or as the base of a Bloody Mary where the rye can carry the spice.
Flavour profile
Dry · Bready · Peppery · Direct
Did you know?
In 1972 PepsiCo struck a barter deal with the Soviet state: the right to sell Pepsi inside the Soviet Union in exchange for the right to sell Stolichnaya in the West. Roubles could not be freely converted, so vodka became the currency.
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Stolichnaya Vanilla Flavored Ultra Premium Vodka 70 cl 37,5%

Item no.: 22227865479-1101

Vanilla is one of the most expensive spices in the world and one of the most misread. A real pod is not simply sweet. It is dark, resinous and faintly smoky, and that is exactly the side a vanilla vodka either catches or misses altogether.
Expert description
Stolichnaya Vanilla Flavored is a Latvian Vodka made from wheat and rye with vanilla flavour, bottled at 37.5%.
Plenty of people still assume the bottle comes from Russia. It does not. Stolichnaya for the European market is blended and bottled at Latvijas Balzams in Riga, a plant that has made spirits since 1900, and the water is Latvian artesian water drawn from wells beneath the site.
The base spirit follows the house recipe: wheat and rye run through columns, then filtration through quartz sand, birch charcoal and finally woven cloth. The rye is the whole reason there is something for the vanilla to hang on. It lays down a dry, faintly peppery floor that the sweetness can lean against instead of spreading out.
The flavour itself comes from natural vanilla aroma added after distillation, as is the norm for flavoured vodka. Bottling strength sits at 37.5% against 38% for the clear expression, and that half a percent shows: this one is a shade rounder in the mouth and less sharp at the close.
Tasting notes
Nose
Vanilla pod and a touch of white chocolate. Behind it sits a dry grain note that keeps the aroma from tipping into cake batter.
Palate
Soft and round. Vanilla and candied sugar fill the front of the mouth before the rye cuts in with a dry edge.
Finish
Medium. The sweetness lets go slowly and leaves something close to vanilla sugar on the tongue.
Specifications
Name: Stolichnaya Vanilla Flavored
Producer: Stoli Group
Region/Country: Riga, Latvia
Type: Latvian Vodka
ABV: 37.5%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Column distilled and filtered through quartz sand, birch charcoal and woven cloth
EAN no.: 4750021000393
Serving suggestion: Ice cold over ice with a strip of orange peel, or in an Espresso Martini where the vanilla replaces the syrup.
Flavour profile
Vanilla sweet · Creamy · Round · Lightly peppery
Did you know?
The name Stolichnaya is the adjectival form of the Russian stolitsa, capital. The bottle is literally called the one from the capital — a name from the 1930s that today sits on a vodka filled in Riga.
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22,75EUR
Stumbras Premium Organic Vodka 40%

Item no.: 22227865479-1106-197280248

In Kaunas stands a red brick factory that has been making grain spirit since 1906. It has survived two world wars, a Soviet era and a rebirth as free Lithuanian craft. This bottle was the first organic vodka the house released — and the first from Lithuania at all.
Expert description
Stumbras Premium Organic Vodka is a Lithuanian Organic Vodka made from organic wheat and deep subsurface water, bottled at 40%.
The grain comes exclusively from EU certified organic fields, kept apart from the surrounding conventional land so that no mixing happens along the way. The water is drawn from deep down, where it has been shielded from surface contamination for thousands of years. Those two things are what an organic certification stands or falls on, and both are controllable.
The filtration is the technical signature. The spirit passes first through sand, then through activated charcoal, and finally through a linen filter — a method that was new to Lithuania when the bottle launched. The linen catches the last particles mechanically rather than binding aroma compounds chemically the way charcoal does, and that is why the grain character is still there afterwards.
You can taste it. The vodka is unusually mild, almost gentle, with a clear sweetness in the middle that is not added but comes from the wheat. There are no sharp edges and no spirit bite, and it belongs among the vodkas that best withstand being drunk neat at the table.
Tasting notes
Nose
Clean and gentle with a soft grain note. Behind it sits a suggestion of white bread and a stroke of fresh grass.
Palate
Very mild with a clear, natural sweetness in the middle. The texture is smooth and lightly syrupy, without any sharpness.
Finish
Short and clean with a soft trail of sweetness. No warmth arrives at the end.
Specifications
Name: Stumbras Premium Organic Vodka
Distillery: Stumbras
Region/Country: Kaunas, Lithuania
Type: Lithuanian Organic Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Distilled from organic wheat, filtered through sand, activated charcoal and linen
EAN no.: 4770033228585
Serving suggestion: Chilled to 5-10 degrees in a small glass with herring and rye bread.
Flavour profile
Mild · Soft · Lightly sweet · Clean
Did you know?
Stumbras means wisent in Lithuanian, that is the European bison. The animal is the largest land mammal in Europe, vanished from the Lithuanian forests and was reintroduced during the last century. The name was hardly picked at random for a spirit meant to signal strength and Lithuanian nature.
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33,50EUR
The Lakes Vodka in Gift Box 70 cl 40%

Item no.: 505956-498796-453-9

Beside Bassenthwaite Lake in Cumbria sits a distillery in a converted 1850s farmstead, with the River Derwent just outside and the fells behind. The Lake District is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and that is the landscape which ends up in the bottle.
Expert description
The Lakes Vodka is an English Vodka from The Lakes Distillery in Cumbria, distilled once from British wheat in a copper pot still and bottled at 40%.
Please note: the bottle is delivered in the house red gift box, made to a solid standard and ready to be handed on as it is.
A single distillation is an unusual choice for a vodka. Most producers run the distillate through a column again and again to end up as neutral as possible, but here it stays with that one pass through a handmade copper pot still. In exchange, time is taken over it, and the wheat is allowed to remain in the distillate.
It is therefore not an empty vodka. There is a clear, soft sweetness from the grain and a mouthfeel fuller than the strength suggests. The water comes from the distillery's own home inside the Lake District National Park, and the colour is natural.
The bottle follows the house design, the same one you know from its gin and whisky: a plain cut, heavy shoulders, no unnecessary decoration. The gift box is red and well made, and it is the reason this particular version is easy to pass on without further wrapping.
Tasting notes
Nose
Clean and almost neutral. A pale grain note with a hint of freshly baked bread.
Palate
Soft and lightly sweet. The wheat fills the middle, and a kick of white pepper appears at the side of the tongue.
Finish
Short and clear. The sweetness disappears quickly and leaves a dry, clean impression behind.
Specifications
Name: The Lakes Vodka
Distillery: The Lakes Distillery
Region/Country: Cumbria, England
Type: English Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Distilled once from British wheat in a copper pot still
EAN no.: 5060307840186
Serving suggestion: Ice cold in a small glass, or in an Espresso Martini as the distillery itself recommends.
Flavour profile
Clean · Soft · Lightly wheat-sweet · White pepper
Did you know?
The Lakes Vodka was named the world's best vodka at the World Vodka Awards in 2019. The judges described it as very clean on the nose with a little sweetness and a peppery kick at the side of the tongue, recognition an English distillery founded in 2014 had no right to expect so quickly.
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46,75EUR
Titos Handmade Premium Texas Vodka 70 cl 40%

Item no.: 22227865479-7106

In the mid nineties a former geologist stood on the edge of Austin building his own distillery out of second hand equipment and welded pipe. He had no experience with spirits, but he had been making infused vodka for friends and reckoned it could turn into something. It became the first legal distillery in Texas.
Expert description
Tito's Handmade Vodka is an American Vodka distilled from corn in pot stills six times over and bottled at 40%.
The unusual part is the still type. Almost all vodka in the world is made in continuous column plants, because that is the fast and inexpensive way to clean up a spirit. Tito's runs pot stills instead, the same shape you know from Single Malt Whisky and cognac, and every batch is distilled six times. It takes longer and uses more grain, but it allows tasting along the way and cutting the distillate exactly where you want it.
The raw material is corn, and that is what gives the soft, almost creamy character. The vodka is finally filtered through activated charcoal, which strips the last of the sharpness. Because no wheat, rye or barley is involved, Tito's is certified gluten free, and that is one explanation for how big it became in the United States.
The bottle looks the way it does on purpose. Ordinary glass, paper label, no crystal and no artist collaboration. The company is still called Fifth Generation and still sits in Austin, and the money goes into the contents rather than the packaging.
Tasting notes
Nose
Mild and lightly sweet with a trace of corn and vanilla. There is almost no alcoholic sharpness to smell.
Palate
Soft and rounded with a creamy texture. The corn gives a light sweetness, and a fine peppery edge arrives right at the back of the mouth.
Finish
Clean and short. The sweetness drops away immediately and no heat lingers.
Specifications
Name: Tito's Handmade Vodka
Distillery: Tito's Handmade Vodka
Region/Country: Austin, Texas, USA
Type: American Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 70 CL
Distillation method: Pot distilled six times from corn, filtered through activated charcoal
EAN no.: 619947000112
Serving suggestion: In a Vodka Soda with lime, or in a Bloody Mary where the softness carries the spice.
Flavour profile
Soft · Creamy · Lightly sweet · Clean
Did you know?
The man behind it is called Bert Beveridge, and that is his real surname. He picked up the nickname Tito as a child. Not many people in the drinks trade are born with a better head start.
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Tom of Finland Vodka Organic Vodka 50 cl 40%

Item no.: 505956-498796-466-5

Touko Laaksonen drew under the name Tom of Finland for decades in which his subject matter was illegal across most of Europe. Today his work hangs in museums, and it stands on a vodka bottle from his home country.
Expert description
Tom of Finland Vodka is a Finnish Vodka from Lignell & Piispanen in Kuopio, distilled five times from organic wheat and rye and bottled at 40%.
The grain is organic wheat and rye, a combination less common than it sounds. Wheat brings softness, rye brings spice, and together they land somewhere between the Polish rye style and the milder Scandinavian one. The water is arctic, and nothing at all is added, neither colour nor sugar.
Five distillations and a subsequent sheet filtration are what make it smooth enough that there is practically no burn. That is a technical point with a practical consequence: it can be drunk neat at room temperature without needing to hide behind cold.
The label is not decoration. Laaksonen drew his figures from the 1940s onwards, and they became iconic at a time when homosexuality was criminalised in Finland. A share of the profit from every bottle goes to the Tom of Finland Foundation, which works to preserve erotic art.
Tasting notes
Nose
Completely clean. A fine trace of rye bread crust and a hint of aniseed, with no sharp alcohol on the nose.
Palate
Silky with no burn. Vanilla and cream soda first, then a spiced rise with cracked black pepper and a touch of star anise.
Finish
Medium and mild. The spice fades slowly and leaves a soft, clean impression behind.
Specifications
Name: Tom of Finland Vodka
Distillery: Lignell & Piispanen
Region/Country: Kuopio, Finland
Type: Finnish Vodka
ABV: 40%
Size: 50 CL
Natural colour: Yes
Distillation method: Five times distilled from organic wheat and rye, sheet filtered, reduced with arctic water
EAN no.: 6430043095000
Serving suggestion: Neat and cool in a small glass, or in a Vodka Martini where the rye spice gets room.
Flavour profile
Organic · Silky · Rye-spiced · Black pepper
Did you know?
Drawings by Tom of Finland were printed on Finnish postage stamps in 2014, and the release became one of the most requested stamp designs the Finnish post has ever issued. The same artist now stands on the label.
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