Jewel of Russia: Crafted in the traditional Russian style, from a blend of rye, hardy winter wheat and artesian spring water, this vodka is distilled in continuous stills, then repeatedly filtered through high-absorption screens.
Because it is entirely handmade, only 200 bottles of the super-premium vodka can be producedper hour.
Jean-Marc OX Vodka: This small batch alembic spirit is distilled nine times from four varieties of French wheat and limestone-filtered spring water.
Ikon Premium Vodka: Produced 1,500 kilometers from Moscow, Ikon Premium Vodka is a continuous-distilled vodka made from grain and artesian water, which is then filtered four times through Russian birch charcoal.
George Spirits in Alameda, CA, is becoming better known for Hangar 1 Straight Vodka, a small batch, potdistilled grain vodka.
Hangar One Vodka: Long known for eauxdevie and alembic brandies, St.
Domaine Charbay Dry/Clear Vodka: Made at the family-owned distillery in Ukiah, CA, Dry/Clear Vodka is microdistilled from Midwestern grain and spring water.
Ciroc is distilled five times in traditional copper pot stills. The "snap frost" Mauzac grapes are picked late in the season, allowing them to attain higher sugar content.
Ciroc Snap Frost Vodka: This is the first and only vodka made entirely from grapes.
Boru Vodka: Made by West Cork Distillers, County Cork, Ireland, Boru is quadruple-distilled in small batches from grain and soft spring water and filtered through 10 feet of Atlantic Irish oak charcoal.
To assist you in telling one contender from another, here's a scouting report on the latest field of entries. This procession of new arrivals, both imported and American, has helped fuel consumer interest. One of the factors propelling the vodka category is the steady flow of new brands crossing our borders, most professing legacy and asingular twist. Water provides the spirit with its genetic marker and contributes to aroma, taste and mouth-feel. Surprisingly, what likely has the greatest effect on the finished vodka is its water source. How the vodka is distilled and from what-e.g., potatoes, rye, corn or wheat-is significant. Where they're distilled usually speaks volumes about style and technique. All major indicators suggest the current bull market for vodka shows no signs of abating.ĭespite their transparency, all top-shelf vodkas are not created equal. It accounts for over 25% of all distilled spirits sold in the country, eclipsed only by the combined sales figures for all whiskies亡cotch, Irish, Bourbon and Canadian. Its transparency and brilliant character are an intriguing combination, two reasons why vodka continues to be the best-selling category of spirits in the U.S. CLEAR & COOL: Superpremium vodkas are ideal in an up martini.īorn from water, air, earth and fire, no purer representation of time and place exists than the quintessential eau-de-vie, vodka.
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