Review: Truly Wild Berry Vodka
Truly Wild Berry is one of three vodka’s developed in a collaboration between Truly’s parent company, Boston Beer Works, and Beam Suntory. The others include Strawberry Lemonade, and Pineapple Mango. These three blends are among Truly’s most popular hard seltzer flavors. The vodka is made from 100% corn, and is triple distilled. Truly is blended and bottled at the same Frankfort Kentucky distillery Pinnacle is produced. Natural flavors, certified colors, and unlike Truly Hard Seltzer, 5% real juice is blended before bottling at 60 proof. Read more 
Review: Smirnoff Peach Lemonade Vodka
Smirnoff Peach Lemonade Vodka was just released. This follows their successful release of Smirnoff Pink Lemonade Vodka last year. It joins a stable of flavored vodkas Smirnoff currently produce, that now number 29. Each flavor starts with a corn distilled vodka base. Natural flavors and certified color are added before bottling Smirnoff Peach Lemonade at 60 proof. While this is the industries first peach lemonade flavored vodka, Mikes Hard Peach Lemonade was launched in 2014. More recently Vizzy and Bud Light released a Peach Lemonade hard seltzer, and Smithworks produces Southern Peach Tea Lemonade Hard Seltzer. Read more
Review: Ciroc Pomegranate Vodka
Ciroc Pomegranate Vodka was just released. For now it is a Limited Edition release. Ciroc currently crafts seven year round flavored vodka’s, and four Limited Edition varieties. Ciroc Vodka was created in 2001 for the Diageo Group by Jean Sebastien Robicquet, founder of the Cognac based Maison Villevert. The vodka base is made from a blend of Ugni Blanc and Mauzac Blanc grapes. The juice is made into a wine. It takes 5 bottles of wine to create one bottle of Ciroc. The wine is distilled four times in copper column stills. A fifth distillation follows in a traditional custom copper pot still. Natural flavors are blended before bottling at 35 proof. Read more
Review: Natural Light Black Cherry Lemonade Vodka
Natural Light Black Cherry Lemonade Vodka was just released. If the Natural Light name sounds familiar you are probably vaguely remembering your younger days spent downing Natty Light at your favorite college bar. You may also recall waking up in the early afternoon after a night of drinking UV’s colorful flavored Vodka. Did you ever wonder what would happen if the two nights collided. While not exactly a blend of the two campus favorites, Natural Light is produced by Anheuser Busch. Black Cherry Lemonade joins Strawberry Lemonade, and Lemonade in their current vodka lineup. All three varieties are made from a corn distilled alcohol base, and for a limited time all three come with a money back guarantee. Read more
Review: Natural Light Strawberry Lemonade Vodka
When you run out of ideas for additional hard seltzer flavors, and Bud Light beer flavors, and you already have a successful Naturdays Natural Light Beer line what do you do next? Anheuser Busch has decided to create a new flavored vodka line. The new Natural Light flavored vodka brand consists of three lemonade flavors. Today we are reviewing Natural Light Strawberry Lemonade Vodka. The other two flavors are Black Cherry Lemonade, and Lemonade. Priced around $10 for a 750ml bottle, two things are apparent. A-B is going after the same under 30 audience Natty beer has successfully won over, and they will target UV, Svedka, Smirnoff, and New Amsterdam flavored vodka drinkers. Natural Light Strawberry Lemonade is made from a corn vodka base. It is distilled 4 times and bottled in Louisville Kentucky. Are the added flavors natural? Who knows. Is the color certified? They don’t say. Did I tell you this is priced about $10 for a 750ml bottle? A-B is also launching the brand with a money back guarantee for a limited time. A-B Natural Light Strawberry Lemonade Vodka is said to be best served as a chilled shot or mixed with club soda. Read more
Review: Stumpys Unbroken Peach Vodka
Stumpys Unbroken Peach Vodka is crafted at Stumpys Spirits Distillery in Columbia Illinois. Adam and his wife Laura Stumpf opened their distillery July 18, 2015. Adam rents the 10 acres the distillery sits on from his father and uncle who manage the family farm. He also rents 50 acres of land around the distillery for crafting his spirits, farming it entirely by himself when possible. The Stumpys Unbroken Vodka base is made from 100% family grown corn on their 8th generation farm, and fresh limestone well water, also sourced from their farm. Once distilled the spirit is filtered through a custom blend of activated carbon. The vodka is then infused with fresh tree-ripened peaches from Eckerts Orchards in neighboring Belleville Illinois. Read more
Review: Grey Goose Essences White Peach & Rosemary
Grey Goose Essences White Peach & Rosemary is one of three flavors in the new Grey Goose Essence product line. The other varieties include Strawberry & Lemongrass and Watermelon & Basil. Every couple of months a new brand releases their own 0 sugar botanical blend of infused vodka. Next month Belvedere will be releasing their Organic Infusions Vodka which will consist of Pear & Ginger, Lemon & Basil, and Blackberry & Lemongrass. Grey Goose Essences starts with the Grey Goose vodka base made from soft winter wheat and pristine spring water filtered through Champaign limestone in the Cognac region of France. Each Essences variety is infused with real fruit and botanical essences. Read more
Review: Grey Goose Essences Watermelon & Basil Vodka
Grey Goose Essences Watermelon & Basil is one of three vodka’s in the new Grey Goose Essences product line. Before there was Hard Seltzer, and Peanut Butter Whiskey, and before Fireball Whisky became a monster hit, flavored vodka was the hottest adult beverage. While flavored vodka sales and selection are not what they used to be, 0 sugar botanical vodka is the hottest flavored vodka trend right now. With the exception of Grey Goose La Vanille, Grey Goose has done a great job with their flavored vodka. I also enjoyed Grey Goose Essences Strawberry & Lemongrass so I’m anxious to try Grey Goose Watermelon & Basil. Read more
Review: Svedka Cherry Limeade Vodka
Svedka Cherry Limeade Vodka was recently released. It is one of twelve flavored vodkas in the current Svedka lineup. Svedka is not the first Cherry Limeade flavored vodka. Burnett’s also makes one. Pinnacle produces a Cherry Lemonade flavored vodka. Svedka Cherry Limeade is made from a vodka base of Swedish winter wheat and ice cold water from Swedish springs. Four pounds of wheat are needed to produce one 750 ml bottle of vodka. The vodka base is distilled five times and filtered five times. Natural flavors are infused before bottling in Bardstown Kentucky at 70 proof. Read more
Review: Absolut Watermelon Vodka
Absolut Watermelon Vodka was just released. It is one of 16 flavor varieties Absolut crafts with a vodka base made from Swedish winter wheat sourced from 450 local farms. One kilo of wheat is needed to create 1 liter of vodka. The wheat is milled onsite and blended with water and a proprietary yeast. A continuous distillation process is used with steel column stills and copper plates. The vodka is filtered once through a mesh filter. Pure deep well water from naturally filtered aquifers is softened through reverse osmosis and blended to reduce to proof. Natural flavors are infused before bottling at 76 proof. Absolut Vodka was first released in 1879 in Ahus Sweden, and launched globally in 1979. Absolut Vodka is currently the fifth best selling vodka brand in the US, and the second best selling vodka world wide. Read more