Monopol Vodka is one of the many vodka product of Estonian Remedia Distillery. It’s made from imported rectified spirit, filtered and diluted by specially purified water. 20cl bottle was 3.19€ at Maxima. Monopol is very typical “estonian” vodka. Neutral, a bit ethanol on nose and taste, burn slightly and have some…
Angostura comes from Trinidad, small Caribbean island. It was established by Johan Sieger, doctor of medicine. He was working as surgeon on Simon Bolivar’s army in Venezuela. Sieger wanted to create new product from botanicals, to help his patients appetite and digestion. At 1824 was born the Aromatic Bitters and when…
Vana Tallinn Chocolate is another product of Vana Tallinn cream liqueur series. It should be same than the original cream liqueur but flavoured with cocoa beans and dark chocolate. 50cl bottle was 5.99€ at Rimi. It have some cocoa beans aroma, also rum is quite strong on the nose. Mouthfeel is…
Porto Calem was founded by Antonio Alves Calem at 1859. Antonio started to export the wines to Brazil, which was the new market for port wines. Usually them were exported to UK and other European markets. Opening a new market proved to be successful so Porto Calem was quickly able to…
Grant’s is well known blended Scotch whisky and it’s among the top 3 most sold whiskies in the world. It’s produced by William Grant & Sons, a family company from the Speyside area. The sales volume is 155.000 bottles per day. Grant’s was established by William Grant, who built Glenfiddich distillery…
999 is Lithuanian national liqueur produced by Stumbras. The Nines Citrus is a variation of original liqueur, it have in addition of 27 herbs also lemon, orange and red grapefruit. The producer says them stronger the flavour of original herbs and brings some exotic addition and velvet texture. 50cl bottle was…
Medoff is a product of Ukrainian Beverage Trading Company. BTC is a leading alcohol producer in Ukraine, owning plenty of vodka brands. It belongs among the top 5 biggest vodka producers in the world, having 10% market share of all the exported vodkas from Ukraine and Russia. Medoff speciality is it’s…
Johan Freitag vodka is made by Latvian brewery Cesu Alus, which is owned by Finnish brewery Olvi. Cesu Alus is not a distillery, so they import the rectified spirit somewhere from Europe and just dilute and bottle it. Johan Freitag is marketed as “scandinavian tradition and northern crispness and purity”. 50cl…
Clan Murray is made by Benriach Distillery. It looks Benriach is not so proud of this product, as there is not any mention of this whisky on their website or anywhere else on the internet. I found it on sale at Baltic states and a few other countries like Holland and…
Ballantine’s is one of the third most sold Scotch whiskies, among Johnnie Walker Red Label and Grant’s Family Reserve. It’s available on every store and mostly also on different bottle sizes. Ballantine’s is worldwide 2nd most sold whisky but in Europe it’s the first. The Sales volume is enormous, 200.000 bottles…