Review: Charbay Red Raspberry Vodka
Charbay Red Raspberry vodka is one of six vodka flavors the Karakasevic family creates in Napa Valley with their clear unflavored vodka made with Midwest grown corn and rye as a base. They also create whiskey, tequila, rum, brandy and liqueurs. They use a classic 660 gallon still along with a proprietary distillation process and distill to 192 proof. Pure spring water that has been filtered to 3PPM purity is used to reduce to 80 proof. One batch of Red Raspberry is made each year with whole fresh red raspberries from the Williamette Valley of Oregon. After a 3 month extraction, the raspberry is blended with their vodka and bottled at 70 proof. Read more 
Review: Smirnoff Green Apple Vodka
Smirnoff Green Apple vodka was introduced in 2003. This should not be confused with their recently released Smirnoff Sours Green Apple vodka. It is one of 35 flavors they currently create with their Recipe 21 vodka as a base. Recipe 21 is made with Midwest grown grain. It is triple distilled and filtered ten times. Natural flavors including green apple are infused before bottling at 70 proof. The new Smirnoff Green Apple label is pictured to the right. Read more
Review: Kru 82 Cucumber Vodka
Kru 82 Cucumber vodka is one of five vodka flavors Western Spirits has introduced since they launched their original unflavored Kru 82 in 2010. The other flavors include Pistachio, Peach Mango, Chocolate Truffle, and Wintergreen. It is made with French winter wheat and extra pure spring water. It is distilled 5 times in France before being flavored and bottled by Three Springs Bottling Company in Bowling Green Kentucky. Cucumbers are native to India, and 90% of their weight is water, about the same % as a grapefruit. Read more
Review: Blue Ice Island Coconut Vodka
Blue Ice Island Coconut vodka is one of four flavored vodka’s they currently offer in limited markets. The other flavors include Blue Raspberry, Crème Brule, and Sweet Peach. Blue Ice also crafts three unflavored vodka’s. Those include an American Potato, Organic Wheat, and their G Multi-Grain. Island Coconut starts with their G Multi-Grain vodka as a base. It is made with premium hand selected American grains and it is distilled five times before natural coconut flavor is infused. Read more
Review: Pearl Red Berry Vodka
Pearl Red Berry Vodka is one of 18 flavored vodkas St. Louis based Luxco creates under the Pearl label. Unlike the other Red Berry vodka’s on the market, Pearl Red Berry is not a blend of several red berries but rather a vodka made with only one red berry, fresh ripe raspberry. It is crafted in micro batches in Canada with pure water from Canadian Rocky mountain streams and soft Canadian winter wheat. It is distilled five times and filtered six times before natural flavors including fresh ripe raspberries are infused. Read more
Review: Vox Green Apple Vodka
Vox Green Apple vodka was introduced in 2005. It is one of three vodka flavors Vox creates in the Netherlands at a distillery with a 400 year history of distilling vodka. Their other flavors are Raspberry and their original unflavored. It is made with wheat and it is distilled five times before a neutral micron cellulose filtration that filters the impurities without affecting the aroma or flavor is used. Natural apple flavor is added before bottling in their signature Austrian made glass bottle at 80 proof. Read more
Review: Finlandia Tangerine Vodka
Finlandia Tangerine vodka was introduced May 2009. It is one of ten flavored vodka’s Finlandia currently crafts in Kaskenkorva Finland. They start with pure glacial spring water and the finest six row barley. A continuous distillation process with more than 200 distillation steps that leaves no impurities to filter is used. All natural tangerine flavor is infused before bottling at 75 proof. Read more
Review: Pearl Plum Vodka
Pearl Plum vodka was introduced in 2009. It is one of 18 flavors St. Louis Missouri based Luxco creates under the Pearl label. Pearl crafts their vodka in micro-batches using pure water from Canadian Rocky mountain streams and soft Canadian winter wheat. It is distilled five times and filtered six times before natural flavors including fresh plum are infused. Read more
Review: Smirnoff Ruby Red Grapefruit Vodka
Smirnoff Ruby Red Grapefruit vodka will be introduced later this month. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a bottle a little early. It is one of 35 vodka flavors they currently create with their Recipe 21 vodka as a base. Recipe 21 is made with Midwest grown grain. It is triple distilled and filtered ten times. Natural flavors including ruby red grapefruit is infused before bottling at 70 proof. Read more
Review: UV Grape Vodka
UV Grape vodka is one of 22 flavors The Phillips Distilling Company currently offers Nationwide under the UV label. It is crafted with vodka made with Midwest grown yellow corn and purified water from deep aquifers in Princeton Minnesota. It is distilled four times and then filtered with activated carbon before natural flavors including California grown Concord grapes are added. Concord grapes are named after the town, Concord Massachusetts, where they were developed in 1849. They are commonly used in making grape juice and jelly. Read more