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Great Vodkas
Feb. 20th, 2012 12:45 amIf you didn't already know, I like vodka. Much like some of my friends taste and try to find the best chocolates in the world, I like to find really good vodkas. Ones that you can drink at room temperature and don't burn too much or have any bitterness to them. There are the typical bar vodkas you see like Stolichnaya, Grey Goose, Skyy, Absolut, etc., and sometimes Belvedere (not easily found in neighborhood bars).
Last year, in Washington, DC, at a friend's birthday party during DC Pride, I discovered Tito's "Handmade vodka", which was pretty good. The bartender had about 1/3 of a bottle left that I drank slowly on my own throughout the evening without a chaser. I was very happy to find that vodka and we bought a large bottle at the beginning of Bear Week 2011.
The other day, before we had friends over to discuss our upcoming trip to France, I bought a bottle of this vodka:
It's smooth, delicious, and makes really clean martinis. This bottle did not last long in this household. We finished it off last night, in fact, with a friend who is equally as discerning about his vodka as I am. There's a Speak-Easy we go to in Manhattan once in a while and I think they use this vodka for their martinis, which are very tasty.
My all-time favorite vodka, however, is Sibirskaya, which, if ever I find a US distributor, I would set up regular deliveries of it and enjoy it for a long time.
All the places I've looked so far say that it's "discontinued". Hopefully, I'll stumble across a place that sells it or can get it in soon.
And last summer, before we boarded our cruise ship, I bought a bottle of Moskovskaya that I made last our entire cruise of 11 days before we got off in Naples. That was pretty good vodka, as well, and we didn't always have good access to ice. I was happy that we could drink it at room temp without too much of a bite from it.
Here's to the search for more of the world's best vodkas!!
Last year, in Washington, DC, at a friend's birthday party during DC Pride, I discovered Tito's "Handmade vodka", which was pretty good. The bartender had about 1/3 of a bottle left that I drank slowly on my own throughout the evening without a chaser. I was very happy to find that vodka and we bought a large bottle at the beginning of Bear Week 2011.
The other day, before we had friends over to discuss our upcoming trip to France, I bought a bottle of this vodka:
It's smooth, delicious, and makes really clean martinis. This bottle did not last long in this household. We finished it off last night, in fact, with a friend who is equally as discerning about his vodka as I am. There's a Speak-Easy we go to in Manhattan once in a while and I think they use this vodka for their martinis, which are very tasty.
My all-time favorite vodka, however, is Sibirskaya, which, if ever I find a US distributor, I would set up regular deliveries of it and enjoy it for a long time.
All the places I've looked so far say that it's "discontinued". Hopefully, I'll stumble across a place that sells it or can get it in soon.
And last summer, before we boarded our cruise ship, I bought a bottle of Moskovskaya that I made last our entire cruise of 11 days before we got off in Naples. That was pretty good vodka, as well, and we didn't always have good access to ice. I was happy that we could drink it at room temp without too much of a bite from it.
Here's to the search for more of the world's best vodkas!!
