Review: Alchemia Czekoladowa Chocolate Infused Vodka
Review: Alchemia Czekoladowa Chocolate Infused Vodka
This new flavored vodka brand hails from Poland, is thrice distilled from 100% rye grain, and is small-batch infused (by macerating raw ingredients instead of using flavor extracts), which leaves natural color in the spirit instead of being filtered to the usual clear. The vodkas are then finished in oak barrels, giving a little twist to the way this product is normally made, and the TransAmerica Pyramid-shaped bottle is quite striking.
The initial three flavors include wild cherry, ginger, and chocolate. We tasted the lattermost.
Chocolate infused? Imagine Hershey’s syrup given an alcoholic kick and you approach the way cola-brown Alchemia Chocolate comes across. Room-filling with its cocoa aromas, there’s a hefty vanilla kick to it, too. Everything from the attack to the finish is dazzlingly sweet, which makes it quite the surprise when you realize this is full 80-proof vodka. How much sugar has to be used to sweeten up that much alcohol I can’t fully fathom.
80 proof.
B+ / $29
Alchemia Czekoladowa Chocolate Infused Vodka
$29
Nice, I think I want to try the wild cherry. “Wild Cherry” always seems to taste better than just “cherry.”