Lauktuvių is a trade mark of Liviko Eesti by drinks produced to Lithuanian market. The name of the drink is freely translated as “cranberries on brandy”. So it’s kind of mixture of cranberry juice and brandy, blended to 20% strength. Liviko says that the drink is based on ancient recipes and…
Bartender’s Club is a private label product of Rimi Baltic, owned by Swedish company ICA. Rimi headquarters is in Riga and the products are on sale in every Baltic state. There is not any info available about this whisky, just that it's produced in Scotland and bottled in Estonia. Matured 3…
Braastad is a trademark of cognac house Tiffon and it is currently owned by Norwegian company Arcus. Braastad Cream liqueur is a mixture of cream, Braastad VS cognac, sugar and other ingredients. Only 56% of the alcohol content comes from cognac, the rest coming from neutral wheat spirit. The liqueur has…
Federatsiya is produced by Russian company ALKO Group. It was established in 1996 and it exports alcohol products to all ex-Soviet Union countries and a few others like Germany and Israel. There are ten different alcohol producers in the group. Vodka is diluted from ground water pumped from 180m deepness. Water…
The production of Maker’s Mark started in 1954 at premises, which previously belonged to Burks Distillery. It was bought by William Samuels, the founder of the company. The first bottling came out in 1958 and already has the dipped red wax over the cap, which since has been the trademark of…
Koch strawberry liqueur are made on berries picked by Maarjamaa farmhouse at western-Estonia. Infused 2 months on strong alcohol, sweetened by sugar. Aroma is natural and also colour shows that there are no artificial colourings used. Strawberry aroma is deep, taste is thick, sweet and natural. There is a small ethanol…
Moskovskaya is one of the oldest Russian vodka brands. Even the name says, it’s not produced anymore in Russia, but in Latvia by Latvijas Balzams. Moskovskaya Silver is a special edition vodka with six times distillation and silver filtration process. There the rectified alcohol and water solution is mixed with powdered…
Moskovskaya vodka has been produced since 1894. It’s one of the oldest Russian vodka brands. It has been continuously produced, only exception was the First World War time until 1924, when it was restored. It’s now produced by Latvias Balzams at Riga, who is also the exporter of it for Europe…
Slavjanka is produced by Lithuanian company Vilniaus Degtine. For sure it is not a high priority product from them, as there is hardly any infos for it, even on the producer homepage. Krepkaja Oblepiha means sea-buckthorn, which is used to flavour this vodka. It is widely available in Latvian and Lithuanian…
Arsenitch was originally made by Latvian Jaunalko, founded in 1996. It was bought by Finnish alcohol gigant Altia in 2012. Year later Altia closed the Jaunalko distillery and moved the production to Estonia and changed the to use the rectified spirit made at Koskenkorva factory. There is a story of 150…