No, Stalinskaya is not inspired by Joseph Stalin. Actually, both names were inspired by stal, the Russian word for steel. The term denotes strength. The Romanian vodka is distilled from top grade wheat using a proprietary three step distillation process. According to the company, it is then “filtered through birch charcoal and silver ions for smoothness and exceptional clarity.”

And as if the tusk shaped bottle isn’t enough of a homage to the mammoth, Siberian cedar nuts are added to the vodka – the favourite food of the Yukagir mammoth. A rounded and slightly starchy nose. Soft and full with a botanical/ grainy nip and hints of natural vanilla pod. The Tayport distillery is located in Fife, Scotland, northeast of Edinburgh, just across from the Highland line. Tayport’s vodka is based on a mash bill of malted barley. Delicately perfumed on the nose with a touch of almond. Mouth-watering apricot, lime juice, and grapefruit zest tingle on the palate, A sense of savouriness develops with a slightly salted mouthfeel balanced by a gentle sweetness. The overall profile is sublime, the texture rich and delicious. An exceptional vodka.The Itkul Distillery is Siberia’s oldest distillery, founded in 1868 at the River Itkul, Altai Region. The quest for purity led to the development of premium vodkas, which started appearing on the market in the 1990s. Grey Goose led the way, but many other brands followed, with producers creating increasingly expensive super-premium and ultra-premium expressions.

Polar Ice Arctic Extreme vodka is Canada’s fourth best-selling vodka. It’s a quadruple distilled, three-time filtered vodka, and is produced at the Hiram Walker and Sons distillery in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Per the distillery, the vodka is inspired by Canada’s pristine Arctic north and utilizes a unique, 6° C chill filtration process designed to produce an exceptionally smooth vodka. A premium Russian vodka made using a revolutionary freeze filtration technique, filtering the spirit at -18°C. This makes all impurities freeze against the walls of the filtration tanks giving ultra-high levels of purity and making it one of the smoothest on the market. It has subtle flavours of creamy aniseed with a light spiciness and balanced dryness on the palate. A fantastic buy from one of the most prestigious vodka brands. Alc 40% MAMONT проходит шестикратную дистилляцию ипроизводится изчетырех видов зерна— ячменя, проса, озимой пшеницы иржи. Водка MAMONT производится наоснове натурального солодового спирта. Вмастерских «Иткуля» применяется оригинальная традиционная технология соложения зерна.

Mamont создается наодном изстарейших действующих спиртовых заводов Сибири вАлтайском крае— Иткульском спиртзаводе. In 2002, the Yukagir Mammoth was unearthed in Yakutia, Arctic Siberia, having spent 18,00 years in the ice.

Few have experienced its uncommonly wild and haunting beauty, unspoiled forests, lakes, rivers, and the Altai Mountains. Konstantin Platonov, a wealthy Russian scientist from St. Petersburg, founded the distillery together with Gregoriy Badyn, a merchant of the second guild. Grand and luxurious, the nose opens with cacao and hazelnut and the palate introduces faint notes of nutmeg and clove before rich chocolate and tonka bean emerge. (Tonka bean is extremely aromatic, offering up aromas of almond, vanilla and sweet pipe tobacco. It has high levels of the chemical coumarin and is illegal to sell in the US for human consumption ). Beautifully poised with excellent weight this is decadent and truly outstanding vodka. Made from winter wheat grown on a single estate in southern Sweden, Absolut’s luxury bottling Elyx is distilled in a vintage copper column still from 1921. This is one of our favourite vodkas: rich and rounded, with a luscious silky texture. Light grain aromas, plus notes of fresh bread, white chocolate and mellow spice. The palate has creamy cereal notes, vanilla, macadamia nuts and baked pastries. Alc 42.3% It all started in 2001, when a group of twelve explorers got trapped in the South Pole after surviving an emergency landing. While waiting for a rescue team in the deep Antarctic cold, they began warming themselves up with vodka and started planning their next expedition: the discovery of the Great Mammoth in Siberia.Today, the Itkul Distillery is the only distillery in the whole of Russia to produce alcohol from pure malt. To make up for some lost vodka time, we thought we’d bring you one of the most attention grabbing and distinguishing bottles on the market right now – Mamont Vodka. Best-selling Russian vodka made with winter wheat from the Russian Steppes and glacial water from Lake Lagoda. Alc 38%