Review: Ocean Vodka
Hawaiian vodka? Sure, why not? While you may be expecting a pineapple- or coconut-flavored spirit in Ocean, bottled on Maui (the first vodka ever bottled there), it’s actually a surprisingly supple, unflavored vodka, lightly sweet and incredibly smooth. In fact, it’s one of the smoothest vodkas I’ve sampled in recent memory, fine straight or as a mixer.
Ocean is distilled from organic corn and rye, presumably not grown in Hawaii. The water, in a new twist, really does come from the Pacific Ocean (3,000 feet down, so they say), purified and desalinated and mixed into to the spirit to arrive at the requisite 80 proof. The result is something that nods at its Hawaii an roots without being cloying.
Altogether this is a shockingly light and very pleasant spirit that, despite the kind-of cheesy bottle and outrageous price tag (the only real problem with the thing), is hard not to recommend.
Stick this in your Chi Chi!
A- / $37 / oceanvodka.com
April 1st, 2008 at 8:57 am
That sure is a fancy bottle. Is it worth the almost $40 ? I guess being organic they can charge that little bit more.
– Paul.
btw. did you hear that Absolut was sold (link) to Pernod ?
April 1st, 2008 at 9:02 am
Paul - I am sure shipping from Hawaii and getting water from the bottom of the ocean has something to do with it. Tito’s is $20, max… this isn’t worth twice the price, but it is quite good. PS Yes.
April 8th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
That looks kind of interesting, if only because it’s from an unusual place (Hawaii is certainly not the first place I would think of as a source of vodka).