Stolichnaya Vodka

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  Elit Vodka Magnum Bottle Premium Vodka 300 cl 40%

  Item no.: 222278333-778963

  Three litres of vodka has weight to it. You do not lift it with one hand, and you do not push it to the back of the cupboard. The elit magnum is built to stand in the middle of the table where everyone can see what is being poured.

  Expert description

  Elit Vodka is a Latvian Vodka from Stoli Group, distilled from wheat and bottled at 40% in a 300 cl magnum.

  The large format changes nothing about the liquid but everything about the occasion. Three litres covers a full gathering, and because the bottle has to be handled with both hands, the pour itself becomes part of the evening. The shoulder is broad, the neck is long, and the glass is heavy enough that the bottle stands steady even when half empty.

  Inside sits the top of the house range. The wheat is distilled three times to alpha grade at Latvijas Balzams in Riga, and the spirit is cut with artesian water from a borehole under the plant. It is then chilled to minus 18 degrees and drawn slowly through ion charged filters — the freeze filtration the whole elit expression is built around.

  The cold is not decoration. At that temperature the heavier alcohols and oils behave differently and allow themselves to be caught in the filter, which is why the texture ends up as thick and round as it does. A magnum gives you ample opportunity to test the claim.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Discreet and grainy. Dry baked goods run across the whole aroma, with a small lift of citrus peel on top.

  Palate

  Thick and round in the mouth. Sweetness from the wheat builds slowly and gives way to a dry, lightly peppered stripe.

  Finish

  Clean and coolly drying. It lingers briefly and leaves the tongue with no stickiness at all.

  Specifications

  Name: Elit Vodka Magnum
  Producer: Stoli Group
  Region/Country: Riga, Latvia
  Type: Latvian Vodka
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 300 CL
  Distillation method: Triple distilled and freeze filtered at minus 18 degrees
  Serving suggestion: Pour it ice cold into shot glasses for the table, or build a jug of Vesper for the whole party.
  

  Flavour profile

  Round · Dry · Grain sweet · Clean

  Did you know?

  Latvijas Balzams in Riga was built in 1900 by order of the Tsar and has distilled without interruption ever since. The plant has outlived two world wars, a series of regimes and a declaration of independence — and still makes spirits on the same ground today.

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  • 1pcs.
    241,25EUR
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  Elite Vodka Night Edition Premium Vodka 70 cl 40%

  Item no.: 22227333-663

  Turn the lights off and the bottle almost disappears. Matte black glass throws back no reflection, and the engraved circles cut across one another like rings around an eclipsed moon. Night Edition was drawn from the things you only see once the sky is dark enough.

  Expert description

  Elit Vodka Night Edition is a Latvian Vodka from Stoli Group, distilled from wheat and bottled at 40% in a matte black bottle.

  Elit sits at the top of the Stolichnaya family and is made at Latvijas Balzams in Riga, one of the oldest and largest spirits plants in the Baltics. The wheat is distilled three times into an alpha grade spirit, the purest classification available to work with, and then cut with artesian water drawn from roughly 200 metres below ground.

  The final step is the house signature. The spirit is chilled to minus 18 degrees and then drawn through ion charged filters so slowly that the process can run for hours. The cold holds the heavier compounds back, so they stay in the filter rather than in the glass. The vodka is then left to rest before bottling.

  Night Edition is the same liquid in different clothing. The bottle is a matte black version of the usual elit shape, and the engraved circles borrow from eclipses and other rare night sky events. This is a bottle designed for evening light rather than daylight.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Cool and reserved. The aroma is dry wheat with a touch of lemon peel and a breath of anise behind it.

  Palate

  Silky and almost free of burn. A discreet grain sweetness fills the middle before white pepper lays a thin stripe across the tongue.

  Finish

  Cool and clean. It fades quickly and leaves a sense of mineral and cold air behind.

  Specifications

  Name: Elit Vodka Night Edition
  Producer: Stoli Group
  Region/Country: Riga, Latvia
  Type: Latvian Vodka
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 70 CL
  Distillation method: Triple distilled and freeze filtered at minus 18 degrees
  Edition: Night Edition
  Serving suggestion: Ice cold in a small tulip glass, or in a dry Martini where the chill does the carrying.
  

  Flavour profile

  Cool · Silky · Dry · Mineral

  Did you know?

  Night Edition was the first elit bottle built with light inside it. A source in the base sends light up through the frosted neck so the engraved circles appear in the dark — a bottle that only shows its full decoration once the lamps are off.

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  • 1pcs.
    57,50EUR
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  Elite Vodka Premium Vodka 70 cl 40%

  Item no.: 22227865478-7115

  The neck is frosted, as though the bottle had just come out of the freezer. That is no accident. The whole elit design points back at the one step that separates it from the rest of the Stolichnaya family: the cold.

  Expert description

  Elit Vodka is a Latvian Vodka from Stoli Group, distilled from wheat and bottled at 40%.

  The foundation is an alpha grade spirit. That is not a marketing word but an official classification with limits on aldehydes, fusel oils and methanol that sit far above what ordinary neutral alcohol has to meet. The wheat is distilled three times before the spirit is even allowed to claim the label.

  It is then cut with artesian water from a borehole roughly 200 metres beneath Latvijas Balzams in Riga, and after that comes the step everything else is built around. The vodka is chilled to minus 18 degrees and drawn at a crawl through ion charged filters. The cold makes the heavier compounds sluggish enough to be caught, and the spirit then rests before bottling.

  What you get out of it shows most clearly when the glass is cold. There is no sharp edge, no burn in the nose and a mouthfeel that verges on oily. In return, this is not a vodka with a great deal to say aromatically — the point is purity and texture rather than a long list of notes.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Very restrained. A pale grain character, a little white bread and a hint of fresh almond if you give it time.

  Palate

  Soft and full with an oily sensation across the tongue. Sweetness is low, and a light mineral tone runs underneath it all.

  Finish

  Short, clean and cool. Nothing lingers, and that is exactly the intention.

  Specifications

  Name: Elit Vodka
  Producer: Stoli Group
  Region/Country: Riga, Latvia
  Type: Latvian Vodka
  ABV: 40%
  Size: 70 CL
  Distillation method: Triple distilled and freeze filtered at minus 18 degrees
  Serving suggestion: Straight from the freezer into a cool glass, or as the base of a Vodka Martini without too much vermouth.
  

  Flavour profile

  Clean · Oily · Neutral · Cool

  Did you know?

  The name is deliberately written with a lower case letter. The house calls it elit rather than Elit, and the small e runs across the label, the box and every piece of material — a detail that regularly makes people assume a typing error has crept in.

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  • 1pcs.
    67,00EUR
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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.
    22,75EUR
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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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  • 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.
    22,75EUR