Review: Ketel One Botanical Peach and Orange Blossom
Ketel One Botanical Peach and Orange Blossom is one of three new Botanical vodka’s just released by Ketel One. The other varieties include Cucumber and Mint, and Grapefruit and Rose. Each variety starts with the Original Ketel One vodka which is made from 100% GMO Free European Wheat. The Ketel One base is redistilled with the Nolet Family’s botanical recipe in small batches through traditional copper pot stills. After distillation, the liquid is infused with the natural fruit essence specific to each variety. In this case Peach and Orange Blossoms. No artificial flavors, sugars or carbs are added before bottling at 60 proof. Each 1.5 oz. serving has 73 calories. This is 40% less than a 5 oz. glass of white wine. Read more 
Review: Heeet Hot Cinnamon Vodka
Heeet Hot Cinnamon Vodka was the first product made by MerryGo Spirits which was founded in 2016 by entrepreneur Marc Goldberg. It is distilled and bottled by Citrus Distillers in Riviera Beach Florida. The vodka base is small batch distilled six times in 250 gallon batches and carbon filtered. Natural flavors are infused before bottling at 68 proof. Read more
Review: Belvedere Ginger Zest Vodka
Belvedere Ginger Zest Vodka is set for release in April. I was luck enough to pick up a bottle a little early. Belvedere Ginger Zest starts with a vodka base made from Dankowski rye and pure water. The water is sourced from their own wells and undergoes an 11 step purification process that includes reverse osmosis. The spirit is distilled four times and is filtered twice. Once through carbon followed by a finer mechanical filtration process. The flavors and aromas of fresh ginger, lemon, and grapefruit are extracted in a proprietary maceration process. These extracted oils are blended with the vodka. No sugar is added before bottling at 80 proof. Read more
Review: Stoli Cucumber Vodka
Stoli Cucumber Vodka will soon be arriving at local liquor stores nationwide. This is the first new flavored vodka Stoli has produced using their signature Stolichnaya vodka base since 2012. They did launch Stoli Crushed Pineapple and Stoli Crushed Ruby Red Grapefruit, two gluten free vodka’s made from corn and buckwheat that are flavored with natural fruit juice and bottled at 60 proof last year. Stoli Crushed Mango is coming soon. Stoli Cucumber is made from estate grown winter wheat, from fields in the Tambov region surrounding their distillery. The spirit is triple distilled. Pure artesian well water is blended to reduce to proof and the vodka is quadruple filtered through a series that includes quartz, Siberian Birch, and tightly woven cloth. While most flavored vodka’s are bottled at 70 proof, and some as low as 60 proof, Stoli Cucumber Vodka weighs in at 75 proof. Read more
Review: Skyy Infusions Sun Ripened Watermelon Vodka
Skyy Infusions Sun Ripened Watermelon Vodka will soon be released. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a bottle a little early. This is not the first watermelon flavored vodka Skyy has produced. Three years ago Skyy Vodka released a 60 proof line of flavored vodka under the Skyy Barcraft product line. One of those three flavors was Watermelon Fresca. The Barcraft line is no longer produced. Sun Ripened Watermelon is the one of 15 flavors in the current Skyy Infusions line up. Watermelon continues to be a popular flavor ingredient for both beer and spirits. This will be my 13th Watermelon flavored vodka review. The vodka base is made from Midwestern grown wheat quadruple distilled in Pekin Illinois. Once in San Jose the spirit is triple filtered through California limestone and blended with water filtered through reverse osmosis. Natural watermelon flavors are infused before bottling at 70 proof. Read more
Review: Square One Bergamot Vodka
Square One Bergamot Vodka was launched in 2009. It is one of five Square One Vodka varieties produced at Distilled Resources in Rigby Idaho. The others include Basil, Botanical, Cucumber, and their Original Organic. Square One is a female owned and operated company headed by company CEO and Founder Allison Evanow. A Bergamot is a citrus fruit that looks like a lime, and is believed to be a genetic hybrid of a lemon and Seville orange. They are grown primarily in Southern Italy and the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Square One Bergamot is made from a vodka base of organic rye grown in North Dakota, and pristine water originating in the Teton Mountains of Wyoming. After a unique organic fermentation, the spirit is small batch four column continuous distilled and filtered once through a simple micro paper filter. The vodka base is layered with the citrus oils of pressed Mandarin, Navel, and Tangerine oranges and finished with the botanical essences of ginger, coriander, and juniper. The vodka is bottled at 80 proof unfiltered after the flavor infusion to . Read more
Review: Hanson of Sonoma Organic Cucumber Vodka
Hanson of Sonoma Organic Cucumber Vodka is one of six vodka varieties crafted by the Hanson Family in Sonoma California. The others include Mandarin, Ginger, Boysenberry, Espresso, and their Original unflavored. The vodka base is made from organic Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, and French Colombard grapes and pure artesian well water. The spirit is seven times small batch distilled in a pot still and a column still with 50 distillation plates. A proprietary seven stage filtration follows. The vodka base is then infused with organic cucumber before hand bottling at 80 proof. Read more
Review: Greenbar Tru Lemon Vodka
Greenbar Tru Lemon Vodka is crafted from a vodka base made from organic wheat and distilled in a continuous column still at the Greenbar Distillery in Los Angeles California. After a gentle charcoal filtration, 2000 hand-zested Eureka Lemons are infused in every small batch. That’s right only three ingredients are used, organic wheat, organic Eureka Lemons, and pure water filtered through reverse osmosis. Eureka lemons are a variety of Citrus Limon that was developed in California in 1958. Read more
Review: Rock Town Mandarin Orange Vodka
Rock Town Mandarin Orange Vodka is one of four vodka varieties produced at the first legal distillery in Arkansas since prohibition. Phil Brandon founded the distillery in 2010 in downtown Littlerock Arkansas. The other varieties include their Original, Basil, and Grapefruit. Rock Town Mandarin Orange starts with the Original vodka base made from local Arkansas corn grown by the Stobaugh Brothers. The vodka is distilled 6 times and filtered to be ultra smooth. Natural flavors including Satsuma, a Japanese Mandarin variety are infused before bottling at 70 proof. Read more
Review: Chase Orange Marmalade Vodka
Chase Orange Marmalade Vodka was initially a limited edition release. The response was so strong it was made one of their flagship flavors. It is made from a vodka base crafted with King Edward, and Lady Claire potatoes, estate grown on the family farm. 16 tonnes of potatoes are needed to make 1000 liters of alcohol. Once harvested the potatoes are fermented with brewers yeast for one week. The spirit is distilled four times in a Bespoke copper batch still and then twice more in a rectification column still. The column is the tallest of its kind on the world. At 70 feet it raises through the roof of the barn. Water drawn from an onsite aquifer filtered through reverse osmosis and deionized is blended to reduce to proof. The vodka base is marinated with thick cut orange marmalade and ribbons of peel from Seville Oranges. The spirit is distilled again with orange peel from Valencia. A final maceration with rough cut marmalade is followed by a chill filtration. The vodka is bottling onsite at 80 proof in Herefordsshire England Wisconsin. Read more