This pure spirit drink does not legally require anything adding to it although some producers include additives to improve the characteristics whilst others introduce flavoring by either adding natural essences or by steeping fruits or herbs in the vodka for several days. No maturation period is required for vodka.
Although being the older drink — vodka took much longer than gin to become popular in Western society. However — following the Russian Revolution in , a number of Russian refugees took their skills — and their love of vodka — to many parts of the world. In the s one such exile emigrated from Russia via France to the United States bringing with him the formula to one of the leading Russian makes of vodka.
Although not particularly successful at first, this enterprise was sold on again to an entrepreneur who eventually made a hit in the s with a vodka-based cocktail, the Moscow Mule.
Realistically though vodka did not see a great boom in popularity in the West until the s and s when many more brands were launched in the USA and the UK. Vodka cocktails are almost as numerous as those of gin and are seen in the same exclusive circles and stylish bars the world over. From Acorns to Melon In , owning distilleries became the exclusive right of the nobility, who were granted further special rights in Vodka Marches Across Europe The spread of awareness of vodka continued throughout the 19th century, helped by the presence in many parts of Europe of Russian soldiers involved in the Napoleonic Wars.
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These are particularly popular as a warmer-upper in the winter. Government efforts to halt the trade have failed. Stolichnaya Russia and Wyborowa Poland are considered robust vodkas. Russian and Polish vodkas are considered the heartiest of the lot. Scandinavian countries are known for their lighter cocktail-friendly vodkas. Dutch vodka is regarded as sweet and gently textured.
Russian grain vodka brands, made from corn, rye or wheat, include Moskovskaya, Smirnoff Black, and Stolichnaya. Moskovskaya is flavored slightly with sodium bicarbonate. Stolichnaya is sweetened with sugar. Foreign brands of vodka like Absolute and Smirnoff are becoming more popular.
Fruit flavored and even vegetable flavored vodkas are very popular in Russia. Flavors include banana, lemon, pepper, black currant, pepper, honey, citrus, raspberry, orange, cherry, honey, pineapple, melon, tangerine, raspberry, strawberry, peach and even beet, nuts, cinnamon, vanilla, chocolate, coffee, exotic spices, apple and pear leaves, juniper berries, cloves. You can get horseradish vodka.
Vodka flavors are added after distillation. The government monopoly on vodka production is steadily being broken up. Kristall is Russia's No. It produces more than 70 brands of liquor. Their enormous factory in Moscow produces five million bottles a month.
The Nazis bombed the factory because alcohol used for Molotov cocktails was produced there. In the late s the company that was declared bankrupt from debts accumulated from inefficacy and poor management. Topaz, Russia's second largest vodka producer, produces about , bottles of vodka a day. Ukrainian vodka still. Gaining access to the Kristall vodka factory requires government approval;. It is absolutely sterile. There is almost no smell of alcohol, and the employees wear white coats.
The vodka is produced in a specialized production line, developed in Italy and Germany, in which alcohol is mechanically mixed with water taken from the main Moscow water supply but specially filtered , and then the vodka is bottled, sealed and packed in boxes.
Most of the machine operators are women, because, as my female guide told me, women are more suite for monotonous work.
In the United States most vodka is made with neutral spirits that have already been distilled from grain from large Midwestern companies like Archer Daniels Midland. The spirits, 95 percent alcohol or more, are trucked to factories where they are mixed with water, filtered, processed with a few additives and bottles. Stolichnaya, Russia's most famous brand of vodka, is produced by the Kristall, In , the Russian Patent Office ruled Stolichnaya was a generic name that all the country's alcohol factories can use.
Many Russians have turned away from Stoli in favor of foreign and other Russian brands because they are no longer sure what's in the bottle. PepsiCo is the exclusive importer of Solichnaya to the United States. Moskovaya is flavored slightly with sodium bicarbonate. SPI Ltd produces and distributes Stolichnaya vodka. Absolut vodka flavors. The Russian government is trying to re-nationalize the vodka industry and take back the Stolichnaya trademark. The Russian agriculture ministry has ruled the government still owns the trademark.
Smirnoff vodka, the world's largest selling vodka and the top seller in the United States, was founded by Pyotry Smirnoff, vodkamaker of the tsars before the Bolshevik Revolution. The right to the Smirnoff name is now owned by the American company Heublin, which in turn is owned by the London-based giant Grand Metropolitan, the maker of Guinness Stout.
Heublin bought the name from a Russian emigre who in turn it bought it from a relative of Pyotry's son after the Smirnoffs emigrated to Poland after the Bolshevik Revolution in and ended up in France. When Hueblin began plans to market Smirnoff in Russia and tried to register the Smirnoff name, the company found they had been beaten to the punch by Boris Smirnoff, a relative of Pyotry, who registered the name three weeks before.
Claiming it was downright un-Russian for a foreign-owned conglomerate to sell Smirnoff vodka in Russia, Boris began producing his own version of Smirnoff vodka.
The Russian alcohol industry lost about 50 percent of its market between and and the production at licensed distilleries dropped to 43 percent of capacity. In one of his first moves after recuperating after heart surgery, Russian President Boris Yeltsin authorized an "emergency" law to raise taxes on imported alcohol in an effort to raise government revenues and stem the flow of foreign vodka. One of the ironies of the law is that the foreign alcohol began pouring in after Yeltsin gave political cronies, such as his former tennis coach, permission to import alcohol without paying taxes or duties.
Around truckers carrying vodka were trapped in no man lands between Russia and Georgia after Russian border guards began enforcing a law restricting alcohol imports. The vodka was not produced in Georgia, which is the main entry point for vodka exported from the United States, Europe and Canada.
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