Along with Ouzo, Metaxa is the most famous Greek alcohol in the world. Metaxa was developed by the Greek silk merchant Spyros Metaxa in the late 1800s. Because of his work, Spyros traveled extensively and at the same time learned various alcohols and wines from different countries. He thought many distillates…
Lars Olsson Smith, a Swedish businessman and politician, was the first who had a continuous column distillery in Sweden in the 1870s. It allowed him to produce a much cleaner and neutral liquor that had been produced in Sweden until then. Lars named his product “Absolut rent brännvin” which means accurately…
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…