Captain Morgan is a rum originally developed by Canadian company Seagram. Seagram sold the brand to Diageo, which has become the world’s largest alcohol producer through various mergers and acquisitions. With strong marketing and efficient distribution channels, Diageo has elevated several brands to the world’s best-selling products, and Captain Morgan is…
Liviko is a big alcohol producer in the Baltic countries and the largest distillery in Estonia, but still wants to maintain the status of a craft distillery, at least with its series of Crafter’s gins. Gin’s are made in batches of 5,000 bottles and each bottle is finished by hand. In…
Valentino is one of the three amaretto liqueurs made by the Belgian Sodiko. Sodiko is a young company whose core business is to produce a variety of alcohols as cost-effectively as possible and sell them in Eastern European stores at affordable prices. In the Baltic countries, Sodiko's products are sold exclusively…
Perepelka vodka was developed by the Ukrainian state-owned distillery National Vodka Company. The company was privatized in 2002 and quickly acquired by the Bayadera Group. Bayadera is reorganizing and modernizing the distillery and in 20 years it has grown into the third largest distillery in Eastern Europe. The characteristic of Perepelka…
Grand Collection Amaretto is a product of the Belgian Sodiko, which the company no longer manufactures, but nowadays under the name of Amaretto Venice. Sodiko is a company founded in 1991 that smelled of money when the Soviet Union collapsed and the whole of Eastern Europe opened its markets to Western…
England is proud of the time when they ruled almost the whole world and it is still visible today. Gin producers in different countries pride themselves on using herbs collected from their own country or the surrounding area. Many English producers, including Opihr in London, again emphasize all the countries where…
Cranberry is one of the most popular raw materials for liqueurs. This berry, which grows in the swamps of the northern countries, does suit everyone because of its sour and bitter taste. However, the strong and tart taste is well suited for liqueurs. Even if there is a lot of sugar…
Zlota is a flavoured vodka from the Polish Żubrówka, better known as their bison grass flavoured vodka. Zlota is made from oak bark, vanilla, prunes and herbs collected from the Polish forest. Zlota was released in 2012 and is produced by a Polmos distillery in Bialystok, Poland. A 50 cl bottle…
Wild Turkey has risen to a significant position in the American whiskey market in recent years. The collaboration with the new brand ambassador Matthew McConaughey has worked well and brought a lot of publicity to the brand. The Italian owner of the brand, Gruppo Campari, has also worked hard to increase…
Kopke is the oldest port wine maker, founded as early as 1638, before port wines still existed as a concept. Kopke is the market leader in Tawny Colheita and white port wines. Today, Kopke is part of the Sogevinus Group, the fifth largest port wine producer. The white grapes are peeled,…