Mount Gay Silver Rum (40%)

Mount Gay home is the Island of Barbados. There, the rum is produced by Mount Gay Distilleries, which dates back to 1703, making the distillery the oldest still operating commercial rum distillery. The distillery is named after John Gay Alley. He was a friend of John Sober, who bought the distillery…

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Medoff Royal Vodka 40%

Medoff is a product of Ukrainian Beverage Trading Company. BTC is a leading alcohol producer in Ukraine, owning plenty of vodka brands. Medoff Royal speciality is it’s “honey rain” purification system, where it uses honey micro-particles as a natural filtration. Medoff Royal is made from wheat, mountain spring water and a…

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Walk Blackcurrant Vodka (38%)

Latvian craft distillery Walk has a selection of different flavoured vodkas. Blackcurrant infused vodka is one of them. Due to the company, they are infusing full blackcurrant on rectified spirit, which the company produces itself from sugar. After infusing, it is filtered, diluted with filtered groundwater and a bit of sugar…

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Scottish Leader Blended Scotch Whisky (40%)

Scottish Leader is a fairly young player in the whiskey world, the brand was founded in 1976. It is produced by Burn Stewart Distillers, which is now owned by South African Distell, Africa’s largest alcohol producer. The company also owns few other Scottish distilleries; Bunnahabhain, Deanston and Ledaig. According to Scottish…

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Smirnoff Vodka (37.5%)

Smirnoff is the world's best-selling vodka. It was invented by Pyotr Smirnov in the 1860s in Moscow. Pyotr developed carbon filtration to remove impurities from the vodka. It quickly became a very popular vodka until the Russian Tsar in 1904 decided to nationalize all vodka factories. By then, Pyotr was already…

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Teacher’s Highland Cream Scotch Whisky (40%)

Teacher’s Highland Cream is produced in Glasgow and is owned by Beam Suntory. The whiskey brand was registered in 1884 and was founded by William Teacher. The year 1830 in the bottle comes from when William began selling whiskey at his wife’s grocery store. As with the history of so many…

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Gautier VSOP Cognac (40%)

Gautier VSOP is a blend of cognacs from different regions. The distillates have been matured for a minimum of four and a maximum of six years. It is one of the cheapest VSOP cognacs in Estonia and Latvia, a 50cl plastic bottle costs only € 15.50. The aroma is very light,…

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De Kuyper Créme De Cacao Dark (24%)

De Kuyper is the world's largest producer of liqueurs. It was founded by Petrus de Kuyper in 1695 in Horst, the Netherlands. It is still a family-owned company, now operating for the eleventh generation. The company, which originally made spirits, moved in 1920 to also make soft liqueurs. Today, De Kuyper’s…

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Koskenkorva Vodka 7 Botanicals (37.5%)

Koskenkorva 7 Botanicals is another flavoured vodka from Finnish company Altia. I like their basic vodka, it’s smooth and has a nice barley aroma. Anyway, most of their flavoured vodkas have been disappointing. The big company way of trying to please everyone makes the products too less flavoured and boring.  7…

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