Review: Akvinta Vodka

26Nov/090

Every new vodka that comes out these days has a gimmick (how could it not?), and Akvinta's -- which hails from the sunny shores of Croatia, which the company says earns it the moniker of the Mediterranean's first luxury vodka -- is this: It's triple distilled and filtered five times, five different ways: Through charcoal, marble, silver, gold, and platinum.

Platinum!

Sounds like a waste of precious metals to me, but hey, maybe the proof is in the bottle.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Akvinta is a pretty staid vodka. With a forceful medicinal character, this spirit, distilled from Italian wheat, doesn't venture far from the beaten path. A touch of sweetness on the entry is present through to the finish, but it's overpowered by the astringency of the vodka. Additional notes -- some herbal character perhaps -- are fleeting at best.

In any event, it sure doesn't taste like platinum.

B- / $34 / akvintausa.com