Is There Any Difference Between Cheap and Expensive Vodka?
Or is it all in the marketing?
Vodka is a nearly pure mixture of ethanol and water that’s specifically made to have no characteristic taste or aroma.
I’m not joking. According to the legal definition of vodka from the Code of Federal Regulations:
“Vodka” is a neutral spirit so distilled, or so treated after distillation with charcoal or other materials, as to be without distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color.
So, for a drink that’s produced to attain no unique attributes, why would a $200 bottle of vodka be any different than the $20 plastic bottle on the bottom shelf? It’s unaged, neutral, and highly purified. And its flavor is well the flavor of ethanol (alcohol).
This needed investigation. My budget savvy mind couldn’t fathom the possibility of throwing cash at vodka that wasn’t even higher quality than the bargain product.
Let’s start from the beginning.
