Vodka

[acolyte_to_jippity]

whiskey>vodka...

although vodka tonic with a slice of lime is my new poison.

i usually avoid vodka due to my inability to taste any alcohol in it. even when drinking it straight.

that's technically the point. true, pure, original russian vodka you weren't supposed to really taste much i don't believe.

[walterbrunswick]

Stolichnaya. Grey Goose doesn't compare IMO.

PS Curdy

[Fireye]

Ketel One is quite delicious.

[ZERO]

Grey Goose is a good example of a bad vodka with a high price that makes people who do not understand vodka think it tastes good. Vodka is supposed to be used in the creation of liquors and to do this is is supposed to have a neutral taste like absolute or sky. Expensive brands put other shit in and try to give it a non neutral flavor to differentiate their product and change more money.

[loka]

Vodka is a starter way of drinking. It's such a terrible LQ, and even while mixed, it has no appeal to distinction except terrible bitter to tasteless flavor. You don't have to be a bad bartender to know the difference in Vodka when mixing. At least Bourbon or Whiskey is very distinct, with rum you need to know the difference between light and dark rums. Oh and you can mix whiskey. Manhattans, Boston Sour, variety of Bourbon mixes, Mint Julep...

[DeadEyeDeNNi$]

Worlds best vodka, AND the #1 hard liquor of choice above all others in the world, is shown here...


http://www.forbes.com/2004/07/27/cx_...featslide.html

Taken from here...

http://www.forbes.com/2004/07/28/cx_np_0728feat.html

Neither Grey Goose or Absolute made the list but Stoli Gold did by the skin of their teeth with a 3/10 score

I have Vox here at home too and completely forgot about that until I saw the bottle and it is very good but according to this not the best.

Guess I'll have to try a bottle of, Xxxxxxxxx well, I'm not gonna spoil it for ya.... Go read it :P

[Fireye]

Just a quick point re: the forbes thing, that's their "cool bottle" rating. In other words, how awesome does the bottle look, not how good the vodka tastes. You can tell that by the 10th slide, where they say "10/10- Designed by Frank Gehry".
http://www.forbes.com/2004/07/27/cx_...tslide_10.html

[XxMastagunzxX]

The best vodka is the Russian vodka.

[loka]

Yeah fireye nailed it. Forbes as a magazine focuses on marketable products. That article was looking for best bottle design (which definitely sells the alcohol) and story of origin or motto. Definitely not looking at Forbes to be a trendsetter of which Vodka tastes the best.
http://www.gayot.com/spirits/top10vodkas/main.html

I will always associate vodka as a mixable alcohol in which women prefer. Why? One word. Martini's. Recently went to an Italian Martini bar with my mom and some friends. They use Skyy vodka, and even then, all I could taste was the pomegranate and cranberry of the martini, and not the vodka which was tasteless to say the least. Then I had to get a rum and coke while my friend got a Screwdriver. My friend could taste the rum, while the orange juice took away everything from the vodka.