![]() ![]() It leaves no medicinal, or astringent aftertaste, and I agree that this is a very nice Vodka! I would have to say my initial impression is that the Grey Goose is very clean. I was receiving a very light hint of candy flavour and touches of starchy wheat and spicier grain but not much else. My friends were having trouble finding any flavour perceptions in their glasses. As the vodka was sipped, I asked each friend for a flavour impression, and I was met with a bit of a blank look at first. At the cold temperature I was serving the Grey Goose, it was only slightly creamy.Īll of us felt that the vodka was imparting very little aroma into the air above our shot glasses, a light starchy aroma perhaps, but very little else. I am not normally this secretive during my tasting events but, I wanted to ensure that no preconceived notions regarding the Grey Goose were impacting their perceptions. We were tasting four different Vodkas that day and they were unaware of which Vodka they were tasting at which time. I chilled my bottle of Grey Goose to just above zero degrees Celsius prior to my first tasting session where I had invited a couple of friends to join me. The bottle is topped with a cork closure which is unusual for Vodka but serves to add elegance and ambiance to the occasion of opening it for the first time. Grey Goose Vodka was named for the geese that have made the Cognac Region of France their home, and the Grey Goose bottle has quickly become iconic in the industry with its eye-catching panoramic illustration of these geese and the French countryside which is featured on the bottle. Since Grey Goose is the standard, I thought that it was about time to put the spirit through the paces of my review system here on my website. I know this because almost every time I receive a sample of Vodka from a person in industry, they tell me that their Vodka is ‘just as good’ as Grey Goose. Since then, Grey Goose has become the standard by which Vodka is judged. Frank successfully introduced his Vodka to the world in 1997, and then successfully sold the brand to Bacardi in 2004 for an amount which was reported (by Forbes Magazine) to be in excess of two billion dollars. To say that his new brand was a success would be a wild understatement, as Mr. ![]() ![]() He therefore chose a distillery in the Cognac region of France which would use French Winter Wheat as the base for his Vodka’s distillation, and a water source which was filtered through limestone. He based his new brand upon what he believed to be a North American perception of the superiority of French production. Grey Goose Vodka was created by Sidney Frank who recognized in the mid 1990’s that North America was ready for a new premium vodka brand. A review by Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf) ![]()
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