![]() ![]() Want to compare this spirit against our archives? Visit our statistics page. Value: 7.8 – Pretty good price for its quality. Vodka Martini: 7.5 – For a vodka martini that’s actually not that bad. Screwdriver: 7.5 – It tastes like orange juice, there’s a bit of a tang of vodka it mixes pretty well. ![]() Honesty: 7.8 – This is not a vodka from Ruskev with it’s bear-fighting ways, but it is a refined gentlemanly British vodka meant for the signature shaken Bond martini. A little bit below standard, but that’s not a great selling point in vodkas. The harshness can really hit you, but it doesn’t stay thankfully.Īroma: 4.875 – Smells like acetone, like a cheap vodka. Better than “meh” but still kind of “eh” in our minds.īurn/Smooth: 5.5 – Fairly smooth, but also a fair bit of harshness. It’s above average though.Īftertaste: 4.9 – Feels a bit creamy, if it sits it has a weird taste. It’s not terrible, but it feels like they took cheap vodka and mixed it with really good vodka. Taste: 6.7 – A lot lighter than most other vodka’s. The result is an exceptionally smooth and crisp vodka, perfect for the ultimate martini or cocktail.” Three Olives Vodka achieves its elegant and superior taste through perfected methods of quadruple distillation and filtration. What they say: “Made from the finest wheat harvested in England. Before we move onto the specifics though let’s see what they say about themselves. Three Olives threatens to take over this position for doing this just as well and being much cheaper. We’ve been buying Ketel One for a while now, while we know there are better vodka’s in terms of quality for price we settled on Ketel One for being really tasty and most importantly being perfect in White Russians the official drink of the lounge. ![]() Now we here at the Buffalo Lounge had decided early one about our vodka of choice. Now we haven’t tested the flavored version of Three Olives but on its own the regular vodka is pretty solid. Normally vodkas that require masking their vodka with as many flavors as there are drinks (orange flavored Smirnoff would taste better in a screwdriver than regular) are viewed as inferior. Normally when you think of vodkas with that many flavors you’re reminded of Smirnoff and Absolut. Now chances are you’ve probably seen Three Olives, it’s there at your local package store with an absurd amount of flavors (They have about 20). Normally you don’t think vodka when someone mentions Great Britain, you think of gin however to make a great gin you must first make good vodka, and then of course do some things with juniper and citrus, but this is about Vodka. (Note: Esquire does not endorse this, necessarily.Tonight is a new contender for the Buffalo Lounge’s official vodka that we discovered at PAX East. Which you by no means have to be, nor necessarily should be. Then, the sun seems a little brighter, the air crisper, time irrelevant. The first shot has the slightest bite, as with any vodka, but then the citrus works its way around your mouth, and you're ready for round two. Anyway, Dude appears to be the first spirit to actually strive for the flavor of just soda, albeit without the carbonation. For example: There's root-beer schnapps, which tastes more like a candy root-beer barrel hidden in storage for a decade and then left out in the sun, or Firefly, the iced-tea vodka that tastes as much like a glass of sweet tea as John Goodman made a good Blues Brother. Because while it may taste mostly like the Dew, it's miles ahead of its horrible flavored-liquor brethren. What it tastes like: Yeah, it'll get you drunk. And that state of mind has now been bottled and flavored lemon-lime. Based on inflection alone, it's entirely possible for two people to have an entire conversation with just "dude" - and actually come to a mutual conclusion. Why: Because we can't pretend we weren't mildly interested in what exactly Mountain Dew and vodka are doing in the same bottle.įirst, a few words about the word "dude": For some, dude isn't so much a word as a state of mind. ![]()
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