Review: Ciroc Passion Vodka

Diageo and Sean Diddy Combs have just released Ciroc Passion vodka.  My first thought was this is a passion fruit flavored vodka but since the bottle reads, “an exotic blend of the tropics” it may be a blend of flavors including passion fruit.  Several passion fruit flavored vodka’s have been released.  Only a couple remain on the market today.  We have reviewed passion fruit flavored vodkas made by Smirnoff, 42 Below, Skyy, Opulent and New Amsterdam.  Absolut released a Passion Fruit vodka but I have never seen it in the US.  Only Smirnoff, New Amsterdam, and Seacrets, a small distillery in Ocean City Maryland currently produce a passion fruit flavored vodka.  Like all of the Ciroc flavored vodkas, Passion is made from the original Ciroc vodka base.  This base is crafted from a blend of Ugni Blanc and Mauzac Blanc grapes.  The juice is made into a wine.  It actually takes 4 bottles of wine to make 1 bottle of Ciroc.  The wine is distilled four times in a stainless column still.  A fifth distillation follows in a traditional custom copper pot still at Maison Villevert Distillery by Master Distiller Jean-Sebastien Robicquet, at his family owned 500 year old distillery in the South of France.  Natural flavors are blended before bottling at 60 proof.  The aroma leads with pineapple, kiwi, mango, and blood orange.  Additional time bring out honey and floral notes.  The sweet passion fruit entry includes notes of pineapple and mango building to a juicy fruit juice peak with sweetened mango, pineapple, and blood orange.  It fades with tropical fruit juice and finishes a bit syrupy sweet with black licorice, pineapple, mango, and orange.

Ciroc Everyday Passion

1.5 Oz. Ciroc Passion

1.5 Oz. Orange Juice

.25 Oz. Campari

1/2 Lemon Squeezed

3 Oz. Club Soda

Add Ingredients Into an Ice Filled Tall Glass

Gently Stir

Garnish With an Edible Flower

Made in France

30% Alcohol

Score: 90

Award: Silver Medal