Vodka Sampling The Scottish Way | Zorokovich 1917
As most readers of London Is Cool, are quite aware I very rarely drink…I’m strictly a light weight teetotaller. Or if the scales at Madame Tussauds are correct I’m a light heavy weight teetotaller..! But never the less I think you get the picture I don’t drink much…HONEST!
It was with great reluctance that I accepted a free sample of Zorokovich 1917 vodka. If there is one drink I just don’t drink very often, that is Vodka. It’s not that I don’t like the stuff because I’m sure as heck partial to a wee drop of Red Bull and vodka when the occasion demands it.
Because I’m a true professiona,l I thought I better do some research as to how Russians drink vodka. They after all drink a lot of the stuff. I could vaguely remember when I was staying in a hell hole of hostel way back in the late 1980′s in Tel Aviv, drinking ice cold cheap vodka with my Russian friend Tommy…whatever happened to him? A quick bit of research on Google and ice cold was the way to go and it can be drunk as a shot or sipped. I’m of course referring to straight vodka, some softies out there would dilute it and ruin it…sounds like me!
A couple of hours in the freezer and the Zorokovich 1917 vodka all the way from Sumy in the Ukraine was ready to be drunk by a teetotaller of a Scotsman…if there is such a thing? I poured the the contents of the pretty little vodka bottle into a glass. I looked at it…it smelled like vodka…I closed my eyes and let the ice cold vodka slide down my throat. It tasted like vodka…it was dam good vodka.
Zorokovich 1917 is a premium vodka, which has been tripled distilled, I guess that’s what makes it so smooth. There is also a touch of fieryness to Zorokovich, which I found to be just right for my cultured throat..! If vodka is your drink of choice or whether your looking to try something new that just happens to have an amazing story behind it, you should go check out My Vodka Empire.
I first stumbled upon Zorokovich vodka, when I discovered a fantastic documentary called ‘How To Re-Establish A Vodka Empire’, which is currently been showing as a 24 part series on Babelgum.com. The documentary is the story of film maker and I guess you could now say vodka Barron, Dan Edelstyn as he attempts to retrace his Russian roots and somehow ends up owning a vodka distillery…How indeed, because the story is only at part 8 last time I watched it, so I’m not sure how Dan got to the stage where he is now actually producing and selling his very own Zorokovich 1917 brand of vodka. I will be staying tuned in to the documentary to find out..!
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