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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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  • 1pcs.
    26,75EUR
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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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  • 1pcs.
    26,75EUR
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  Belvedere Ultra Premium Vodka 70 cl 40%

  Item no.: 22227865479-328

  West of Warsaw the Mazovian plain runs flat, and on it grows a rye Polish farmers have worked with for generations. Dankowskie is its name. It was not chosen because it yields the most, but because it yields the most flavour — and that is the whole starting point for Belvedere.

  Expert description

  Belvedere Ultra Premium is a Polish Vodka distilled four times from Dankowskie rye and bottled at 40%.

  It is made at Polmos Żyrardów, a distillery that has been running since 1910 in the factory town of Żyrardów. The rye comes from Polish fields and the water is drawn from the distillery's own artesian wells. Neither sugar, glycerol nor flavouring is added, before or after distillation.

  The four distillations are not four identical runs. The first pass happens at an agricultural distillery close to the fields, after which the spirit goes three times through column stills at Żyrardów. The craft lies in stopping before the rye has gone. Plenty of vodkas are distilled until nothing remains but alcohol and water; here the grain is allowed to stay.

  That is why Belvedere tastes of something. There is a clear rye character, a creamy middle and a peppered edge that make it more interesting neat than most, and more stubborn in a drink where it refuses to simply disappear.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Fresh rye bread crust and vanilla, with a lightly milky tone underneath. The alcohol is barely noticeable.

  Palate

  Creamy and full through the middle, where the rye brings a mild sweetness. Black pepper and a nutty pull follow.

  Finish

  Medium and dry. The pepper holds on for a while as the sweetness falls away.

  Specifications

  Name: Belvedere Ultra Premium
  Distillery: Polmos Żyrardów
  Region/Country: Żyrardów, Poland
  Type: Polish Vodka
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 70 CL
  Distillation method: Four times distilled
  EAN no.: 5901041003003
  Serving suggestion: In a Martini stirred rather than shaken, so the creamy texture holds. Or cool and neat alongside roe.
  

  Flavour profile

  Creamy · Rye spiced · Vanilla soft · Peppered

  Did you know?

  The building on the bottle is the Belweder Palace in Warsaw, from which the brand takes its name. The palace has housed Polish heads of state, and the image with its bare trees in front is printed so that it glows through when the bottle is held up to a lamp.

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  • 1pcs.
    67,00EUR
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  Grey Goose French Ultra Premium Vodka 70 cl 40%

  Item no.: 22227865479-133

  Picardie in winter is flat, wet and wind-scoured. The wheat is sown in autumn and stands in the ground through the whole cold season before it is cut the following summer. That long, slow ripening is what an entire idea about vodka rests on.

  Expert description

  Grey Goose is a French Vodka distilled from soft winter wheat from Picardie and bottled at 40%.

  There are two ingredients in the bottle and no more: the wheat and the water. The wheat is grown in Picardie in northern France, where soil and climate produce a soft variety high in starch, and the water comes from the house well in the Cognac region. None of it leaves France along the way.

  The unusual part is the distillation. Where most so-called premium vodkas market themselves on five, seven or ten passes, Grey Goose runs only once through a continuous column. The thinking is the opposite of the norm: each extra distillation cleans the spirit while taking away some of the grain, and here the grain is the point of the bottle.

  You can taste it. A soft, almost marzipan sweetness sits through the middle, the kind that sharply distilled vodkas have polished out. The bottle itself carries flying geese over a French landscape, and the glass is frosted so the image reads more clearly.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Fresh wheat and a touch of marzipan. Behind it sits something floral and a suggestion of lemon peel.

  Palate

  Silky, with obvious grain sweetness through the middle. A light almond note spreads out before white pepper gives it an edge.

  Finish

  Clean and medium. The sweetness falls away calmly and leaves a dry, faintly peppery impression.

  Specifications

  Name: Grey Goose
  Producer: Grey Goose
  Region/Country: Picardie and Cognac, France
  Type: French Vodka
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 70 CL
  Distillation method: Single distilled in a continuous column
  EAN no.: 5010677850100
  Serving suggestion: In a dry Martini with a lemon twist, or neat in a cool glass without ice.
  

  Flavour profile

  Soft · Grain sweet · Almond · Clean

  Did you know?

  The man behind Grey Goose, Sidney Frank, was an importer who had already turned a German herbal liqueur into an American cult phenomenon before he decided in 1997 to build a French luxury vodka. He had no background in spirits production — he had an idea and a salesman's ear for what people wanted to believe.

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  • 1pcs.
    67,00EUR
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  Ciroc Premium French Vodka 70 cl 40%

  Item no.: 22227865479-121

  High above the Tarn valley in Gaillac the grapes come off the vine while the nights are still cold. They never reach a wine bottle. They are pressed, fermented and pushed through five distillations until nothing but clear spirit remains. And still, the vineyard is somehow left in the glass.

  Expert description

  Ciroc Premium French Vodka is a French Vodka distilled five times from French wine grapes and bottled at 40%.

  Two white grape varieties do the work. Mauzac Blanc grows in the high vineyards around Gaillac in south west France, Ugni Blanc comes from Cognac. The fruit is cold macerated at around 8 degrees so the aromatics are drawn slowly out of the skins, then the must is cold fermented into wine. Distillation only begins once that wine is finished. The method belongs to the wine trade rather than to the brewhouse.

  The first four runs happen in column stills, taking the spirit up to roughly 96%. The fifth and final run takes place in a tailor made copper pot still at Maison Villevert in southern France, and that is where the character is set. Nothing is aged and nothing is added before the spirit is cut with water to 40%. Since no grain enters the recipe, the vodka is gluten free.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Citrus peel and a light floral lift. Underneath sits something sweet and juicy that points clearly towards grape rather than grain.

  Palate

  Soft, almost oily across the tongue. Citrus arrives first, then a mild white grape sweetness, and finally a trace of white pepper.

  Finish

  Short and clean cut. The citrus note withdraws slowly and leaves no burn behind in the throat.

  Specifications

  Name: Ciroc Premium French Vodka
  Distillery: Ciroc
  Region/Country: Cognac, France
  Type: French Vodka
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 70 CL
  Distillation method: Five times distilled
  EAN no.: 5010103916738
  Serving suggestion: Cold in a small glass, or in a Vodka Martini where the citrus has room to speak.
  

  Flavour profile

  Citrus fresh · Soft · Lightly grape sweet · Clean

  Did you know?

  The name joins the French words cime, meaning summit, and roche, meaning rock. It points at the high vineyards around Cordes-sur-Ciel in Gaillac, a medieval town founded in 1222 that sits so far up its cliff that locals call it the village in the clouds.

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  • 1pcs.
    49,50EUR