Christiania Vodka

The Bottom Line

Christiania Vodka is cool, smooth vodka produced in Norway. The original recipe for this premium vodka dates back to King Christian IV's court of the 1500's and includes the country's organic Trondelag potatoes with pure arctic spring water. The ingredients are distilled six time in a column still, filtered with charcoal, then aerated at the Arcus Distillery. The result is a spectacularly clean spirit worthy of a well-chilled, straight sipper or any of your favorite, equally elegant vodka cocktails.

Pros

• Superiorly smooth, clean vodka with a slight hint of citrus.
• Creates elegant, high-class cocktails.

Cons

• At over $30 per bottle it may not be everyone's every day vodka.

Description

• Six time column-distilled, Trondelag potato vodka from Norway
• Produced by Christiania Spirits, Inc.
• 40% alc/volume (80 proof)
• Retails for around $35-38/750 ml bottle
• Released to U.S. Market in 2006

Guide Review - Christiania Vodka

Christiania Vodka is a rich, elegant vodka experience which begins with a clean, yet complex, bouquet of aromas. It is silky and smooth as it reaches the tongue and there it releases a warm citrus and fresh, green undertone. Christiania finishes off nicely with notes of burnt orange and coriander that lasts for a while, but not long enough to be detrimental to the experience.

Christiania truly deserves to be mixed in the best and cleanest cocktails with the freshest ingredients. Those like the Vodka Martini, April Rain, Mad Eye Martini and Pearl Harbor do this vodka justice.

Also, this is a perfect vodka for the more culinary cocktails like these original recipes from Christiania. Notice the use of lingonberry, a wild berry that is made into a traditional Scandinavian jam.

• Christi Extreme
• Tarra Christi

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