Purity vodkas have won numerous awards, including ‘Best Vodka of the Year’, so just how good are they? When people offer to send me spirit samples, they naturally tell me how good their product is and why I ought to…
Vodka Distilled is Tony Abou-Ganim‘s first book since his brilliant 2010 cocktail guide, The Modern Mixologist. Naturally he chooses vodka for his subject, the most popular spirit in the world (a book about whisky will apparently be next). Abou-Ganim built his…
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Email Print Pickers Original Vodka was the first craft vodka to be made in Tennessee and is distilled in a state-of-the-art column still in Nashville, Music City USA. Pickers Original Vodka Pickers Original Vodka Pickers Original…
This lemon flavour was the first of several infused vodkas I tried from Infuse Vodka, and I quickly became a huge fan. The lemon vodka had a slightly sweet and very intense lemon scent to it, like one of my…
I hate it when companies give their products names which depend on typography. I think iTunes and iPads and iPods were the thin end of the wedge. I’ll forgive the all-lower-case Canadian singer kd lang as she’s a genius. The…
Chase Distillery has made a new video and as with everything Chase does, it’s that bit different. Take a look on YouTube and see what you think. While you’re there, Subscribe to the Chase Distillery YouTube channel. There are some…
A vodka was recently launched in Texas, BLK EYE (no, don’t ask me how you pronounce it), that’s made from black-eyed peas. It’s not exactly an obvious choice for a spirit, but it’s far from being the most unusual. I…
One sniff of Infuse Vodka’s Orange Clove flavor and we knew we were in for a treat. It has that wonderfully wintery scent of cloves, combined with a very gentle orange blossom scent, reminiscent of marmalade. All in all it’s…
You can make vodka from many things… but milk? That was the idea that Black Cow Vodka had, and certainly from a marketing point of view it was a very good one. The brand has had so much publicity because…
First published in 2012, this book has been re-published in 2014 and deals with all spirits, not just vodka. It’s an overview of the spirits distilling industry, and while packed with information it is a little on the, well, dry…