The Filipetti winery was founded in 1922 by Giuseppe Filipetti, from the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy. The Piedmont region has more than 20,000 wine cellars and there has been produced more than 300 million liters of wine each year. The area is also the birthplace of vermouths. In the city…
Altia Eesti, the 2nd biggest alcohol producer in Estonia, was known previously as Ofelia. Later the company changed the name, but Ofelia stays as a liqueur series with buns of different berry and fruit liqueurs. Purchase price for a 50cl bottle was 5€. Aroma is neutral and has only a hint…
Casablanca is rum brand owned by Global Wine House, Estonian alcohol distributor. Produced in Caribbean and bottled in Lithuania by Stumbras. Purchase price for 50cl bottle was 8.50€. Rum is a very famous spirit in Estonia, so all alcohol companies need to have them on their selection. They are always sold…
Lillet Blanc is produced by La Maison Frères Lillet. It’s established by Lillet brothers at 1872 on Bordeaux parish. Kina Lillet was established 15 years later. It was invented due to Louis Pasteur experiments, when he found that quinine has a strong effect of malaria prevention. Lillet quinine wine was a…
Tuletorn (lighthouse) vodka is produced by Koch LLC, which belongs to the same conglomerate with Estonian biggest alcohol chain store SuperAlko. Koch produces a big selection of different vodkas, like Vergi, Mulgi, Taxi etc. which prices are around the same level. Differences come for where the rectified spirit is imported and…
Saare Gin is produced by Estonian company Remedia. It was one of the first companies which started alcohol production after the state alcohol monopoly collapsed in 1994. Saare Gin is made by imported rectified spirit, juniper berries, angelica root, coriander seeds, lemon peel and few other spices. Purchase price for a…
Rum is very popular spirit in Estonia and the most famous rum is cheap rum. Global brands Bacardi, Captain Morgan are available everywhere but in addition of them, there are bunch of local producers bottlings. Barbuda is one of them, produced somewhere in Caribbean and bottled by Estonian company Remedia. Purchase…
Vergi is produced by Koch LLC, an alcohol company located in Sõmeru, eastern-Estonia. It is on sale only in SuperAlko alcohol chain stores, owned by the same corporation which also owns Koch. According to one source, it is column distilled from Trinidad, with a small amount of pot still distillate added.…
Abruka is a small island under the Estonian biggest island Saaremaa. There are 33 people living all year round on Abruka, in summer some hundreds of more. Abruka Vodka is made to order by Flagest, Estonian grocery wholesaler. It’s “estonian vodka” whatever it means, for its price range it’s definitely made…
Barbuda Rum is produced by Estonian Remedia Distillery, established in 1991. It’s now owned by Latvian Amber Distribution, which is the biggest alcohol distributor in Baltic states. Barbuda White Rum is a column distilled from molasses, aged a few months or barrels or steel vats and filtered to clear. It’s blended…