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If Whisky is God's drink, Vodka is the People's drink. Vodka is simple
and clean, made for extreme revelry and sadness. Vodka is not, nor
should ever be, like wine: it is our little water, the
sweetheart of men.
Ketel 1
- Price
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$26.49/750ML
- Bought at
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Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (Halifax)
This is a Dutch Vodka boasting to be a premium (a much overuse word in the spirits world), craft vodka, and is presented to us in a quaint, lanky bottle that is not devoid of charm. It used to be much more expensive when I first encountered it in Montreal (about $40), which is why I had not tried it before, but its price recently seems to have dropped by $10 (ouch! that's 25 percent!), which brought it in the range of Vodkas worth trying. And it is worth trying indeed. Its smell is sweet, bordering on fragrant for a vodka, with the typical scent of grain found in better vodka, but also something hinting of greens, and even maybe, very very lightly, of spice. The texture is very good in the mouth, not the silkiest, but pretty damn smooth still; the bite is good, if not sharp; and the aftertaste is very nice, with grain and a very slight bitterness almost reminiscent of coal (possibly attributable to the filtering). On the whole, this is a solid Vodka with interesting characteristics of its own: it's still a bit pricey for Vodka, but worthwhile to have once in a while.
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