What is your favorite vodka?

[Hirsute]

Ciroc on the rare occasion I want a martini that's not gin.

Luksusowa for everything else.

[RDPOE]

Tito's for the price and for mixing.

I love Boyd and Blair if you can find it.

[blary54]

Titos or Reyka(from Iceland) if Im gonna splurge.

Otherwise I pickup Luxsusowa, Sobieski, and recently 42 below (New Zealand vodka on sale at my local store for $10) for around 10-13 dollars.

[rob_NH]

Cold River

I prefer potato vodkas, and I chose the one made a few miles from my house from the potatoes of maine.

[Nick Danger]

Here's my vodka trick:

I start with a humble bottle of Smirnoff. I pour it into a half gallon mason jar and add 2 or 3 six-ounce packages of fresh raspberries. I give the jar a good shake about a twice a day for five days. Then I strain it through a coffee filter and funnel it back into the bottle.

Best damn raspberry vodka you'll ever taste. Way better than those colorless, synthetically flavored vodkas you get in bars. It's such a pretty red, too.

Perfect with tonic or lemonade.

Nick

[OCD Insomniac]

Belvedere if I'm drinking it straight, and Skyy if I'm in the mood to mix it with something. About the only flavored vodkas I've ever enjoyed are Effen cucumber and Hangar 1 kaffir lime. Most others I've ever sampled taste synthetic and are overpowering.

[Ethan.Bassist.]

Sobieski aka "Bruce Juice".

Favourite for a few reasons:

1) Endorsed by Bruce Willis
2) $19.99 for a 1.75L bottle
3) First bottle of vodka I've ever gotten
4) First vodka I've ever tried straight.
5) Endorsed by Bruce Willis hahaha

Anybody tried it?

[ojay]

Grey Goose #1 then Iceberg

[Devilpup]

Stoli is my favorite but Smirnoff is my everyday. That said I usually go for gin.

[Ieo]

Titos if I'm buying... and anything if it's free.

[delamain]

Vodka is not a big deal to me. I have not drank one that has ever stood it. Since it is a neutral spirit by design, I will seek out other drinks if I want something to savour.

I personally reserve it for mixing, and even then it is usually for guests.

The last one I bought was Russian Standard, but the prices for the middle shelf vodkas are all comparable around here, so I have no preference.

[Isaac]

Tito's Vodka. Its affordable, and much better than the high end Vodkas.

[joshua1970]

Tito's. top notch vodka without the premium price for marketing and fancy bottles...

had the pleasure of meeting him circa 1996 in Austin while in town for SXSW and he was the sweetest guy to boot. intelligent, passionate about his craft and as genuine as can be..

alas, I'm not much a vodka drinker - but if you haven't had it, it's definitely worth a try.

a few years back at a friend's bar we did a blind taste test and Tito's came in second out of 15 high end vodkas.

and it costs little more than Banker's Club to boot :)

[delamain]

I've heard all the raves about Tito's but it is $32 around here and that IS a premium price as far as I'm concerned.

I know that that is not the price point in the US, but I don't consider any vodka to be worth that price.

I've got 80 ounces of free cheap vodka underneath my desk that I use for cleaning pipes and filling airlocks, but other than that I have no use for the stuff!

I'd like to try Tito's but I just can't think of a situation where I'd order it! I drink for the flavour and if I want water with character I'll have an Apollinaris or something!

[n.solo88]

Ketel One is one of the best vodkas out there. It's produced by the Nolet family, who have been producing spirits for over 300 years. It is still run by the Nolets, and a member of the family has to okay each batch before it is shipped out. Also, this vodka is on the cheaper side. ANY vodka that is priced over $30 for a 750 is not worth it in my honest opinion. Vodka is the most profitable spirit to produce because there is no aging process. Sobieski is a great example of an exceptional vodka that is really cheap. Vodkas like Goose, Belvedere, and Chopin were created and marketed for North American consumers who believe a better vodka has no taste.
Happy Drinking!

[nymtber]

Titos, hands down. $20ish for a liter, to me its one of the best vodkas at any price range. I don't mix usually, I drink slightly dirty martinis (maybe a teaspoon of olive brine to 3 shots vodka) NO vermouth! EVER. Used to drink Three Olives, but I feel their quality dropped in the last 8 years significantly.

Had a bottle of Grey Goose once, when I was 25ish? Got it as a present. For the money, its crap, absolute crap. Tito's makes for a better martini to my taste buds. I think grey goose around here is $45/Liter, over twice the cost of Titos, and not as good.

Sobieski is just under Titos in my tastes. Would be good for mixing, for sure!

Ketel One is a good vodka, but still more expensive than Titos. I'm cheap with vodka.

YMMV, I also like Jack Daniels for whiskey...which is a little over-priced for what it is, but it agrees with my taste buds so well that I keep buying it :) Generally buy Green label as its a few bucks cheaper. haha

[La Mosca]

I'm not much of a vodka drinker, but the Goose is about as good as I have ever tasted. Belvedere and Kettle One are also very good.

[Mad Man]

Call me a snob but unless it comes from a place East of the Vistula - sorry, it ain't vodka to me.

Absolut, Grey Goose, 42 Below...meh. Either boring, overpriced or over marketed. I'm forever amazed at the number of bars I go to these days where you can't get a Polish or Russian vodka: are you kidding me?

For flavor (yeah, you read it right...FLAVOUR!) it's Russian Standard; their basic vodka is THE #1 voddie in Rodina.

If I'm feeling like a potato vod I drink Luksosowa (cheers Hirsute).

[BigBull]

Tito's.

However, a friend of mine who's the son of a Nascar driver has started his own label - and it is every bit as good. Give it a try, you won't be disappointed.

[inspiringK]

A couple of years ago, I did a multi stage blind taste test with 16 popular vodkas over the course of a few days (sadly we did not include K1). We staggered the test over days so that we would not have to test more than 4 vodkas in a given round. The test wasn’t designed to show whether we could correctly guess which vodka we were trying. It was more of a knockout setup where vodkas that taste better make it to the next round and vodkas that don’t slowly get eliminated.

Grey Goose fell out early on, as with Absolut, it seems like GG has done wonders with marketing.

Belvedere won unanimously.

Stoli was also popular and Smirnoff did okay.
The surprise underdog that did well was Three Olives from England. This vodka was much lambasted before the competition as not standing a chance against other vodkas that were not prepared in the bathtub of some poor English fellow who lacked the needed ingredients to make gin. But, we had to swallow our words when it was revealed as one of the top performers (this then Stoli are about all I buy for vodka now).
Russian Standard was also a top performer and I think Finlandia too.

All that being said, I mostly buy vodka because SWMBO likes it, so I enjoy it but not really as much as other options. I don't tend to mix drinks at all, on the rocks or neat gins and darker liquor bring more flavour to the table than vodka.