Vintage Vodka anyone?

29 Oct

On our AMCA class to Poland to learn about Polish culture and the vodka produced by Chopin,  I discovered the magic of single distillate  vintage vodka.  Yes, single distilled vodka from a certain year.  The vodka that we have in the States has been distilled a minimum of four times.  We have become use to a stripped down very clean tasting product.  The more times you distill alcohol the more times you remove certain flavors.   The team at Chopin lead by owner Tad Dorda have been experimenting with vodka that has been distilled only once from young potato’s from a certain year the way it was made in the past before its mass production.  I found the tasting we had at the Chopin distillery of these products to be an amazing event.  We have wines, all types of whiskeys, even beers being made defined by the years they were made, why not vodka?                    I found all the different years we tasted(09,10,11,& 12) to all have unique flavor characteristics that the others did not have.  All the vintages were quite good and unique, worthy of being there own vintage.  Chopin plans to bring these vintage single distilled vodkas to the U.S. sometime in the future, I can’t wait to share them with all my whiskey loving friends and guests!

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