Rodiono & Sons Private Distillery, makers of POLUGAR Vodka is made in Poland.
Sure, vodka comes to mind when you think of Russian. To be sure, with the current situation in the Ukraine and the boycotts of Russian products, many spirits brands are shining a light on the heritage and history of their brands.
Interestingly, the type of vodka historical figures like Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Push- kin, Dostoevsky or Chekhov sipped on was something very different from the vodka you are familiar with today.
Before rectification technology was invented for the chemical industry in Western Europe, ethanol could not be used as it is nowadays. The vodka was made from grain and distilled in copper pot stills, rather like single malt whisky, and was called Breadwine or Polugar.
When rectification (distillation columns) reached Russia in 1870, alcohol started being produced using the more efficient modern technology and the old recipes of grain distillates used by the nobility were slowly phased out.
It was then in 1895, when the Tsar introduced a state monopoly, that the production of Polugar was completely forbidden and all the traditional distilleries with their copper pot stills were destroyed.
As a result, the Rodiono family was chased from Russia forced to make their product in Poland. Rodiono & Sons set out to build a distillery not far from Warsaw, Poland where their Polugar was made using historical methods.
Over the next century, Rodionov and his sons dared to recreate their vodka the way it was produced in Russia prior to 1895, when Russian banned private distilleries.
Rodionov & Sons Polugar is, to this day, manufactured in Poland, not Russia, using the same traditional methods.
Its range consists of two lines: a tasting line for Connoisseurs and a line for bartenders called the Mixology & Gastronomy line.
For is Connoisseurs range, only one type of cereal is distilled, which can be enjoyed in taste and flavor.
For the Mixology & Gastronomy range of products, each expressions’ natural ingredients are added to the pot-still during third distillation, without any artificial extracts it gives truly revolutionary taste and flavor to the drink.
Henry Preiss, founder of Preiss Imports, importers of Rodionov & Sons Polugar concludes, “Truly a stellar pot distilled spirit to rival anything you have ever tasted.”
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Source: Mixology News
