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Blood Orange Flavored Vodka

Category: Flavored Vodka

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 35%
89 Points
Silver Medal
Highly Recommended
$10
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Member’s Mark
Blood Orange Flavored Vodka

Category: Flavored Vodka

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 35%
Clear color. Aromas and flavors of orange oil, Constant Comment Tea, Orange Tic Tacs, and Orange Crush with a velvety, lively, dryish medium body and a tingling, interesting, medium-length finish manifesting notes of tang and orange essence. Sweet orange to ramp up the potency of your mimosa or sub in as a premixed screwdriver; packs a lot of orange, zesty flavor that comes off true.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Crisp & Lively
Aroma Aroma: orange oil, Constant Comment Tea, Orange Tic Tacs, and Orange Crush
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with notes of tang and orange essence
Smoothness Smoothness: Tingling
Enjoy Enjoy: in cocktails, neat and on the rocks
Cocktail Cocktails: Vodka Soda, Collins, Vodka Tonic
Bottom Line Bottom Line: Sweet orange to ramp up the potency of your mimosa or sub in as a premixed screwdriver; packs a lot of orange, zesty flavor that comes off true.

The Producer

Sam’s Club

The Producer
2101 SE Simple Savings Drive
Bentonville, AR 72716
USA

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Flavored Vodka

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Serve in a Shot Glass
Since Vodka tends to be a neutral spirit, it lends itself to blending with flavors and fortifying other beverages. In the 19th century, high-proof "Russian spirit" was held in high esteem by Sherry producers in Spain, who imported it to fortify their wines.

Neutral spirits are still used to fortify Port, Sherry, and other types of fortified wines, although the source of alcohol for such purposes these days tends to be the vast "wine lake" that has been created by European Union agricultural practices.

Flavored Vodkas have been produced from the start, originally to mask the flavor of the first primitive Vodkas, but later as a mark of the distiller's skill. The Russians and Poles in particular still market dozens of flavors.