[wastedyears]

That’s what you drink when you just don’t care anymore. I don’t like vodka in general, and I’d never drink Russian vodka. I’d rather stay completely sober while everybody around is getting wrecked on the worst vodka you can find.

[archy]

That’s what you drink when you just don’t care anymore.

My preference in such circumstances would be Kossu. But there are those who would consider tequila a close cousin.

[Farmer Dean]

Russian vodka=the worst hangover of your life.Drank a bunch ofStoli with frinds,the next morning my head was like a football.

[The_Reader_David]

I don’t like vodka in general, and I’d never drink Russian vodka. I’d rather stay completely sober while everybody around is getting wrecked on the worst vodka you can find.

Well, I'll second most of what you say, though I'd be interested in trying real traditional Russian vodka distilled from fermented potato mash. Why?

I finally, after over a decade finished off the bottle of Kosher Polish potato vodka some Polish mathematical physicists gave me as a gift when I hosted a conference in the early 90's just after the fall of the Soviet Union. Served ice cold, it was genuinely good to drink: it had a very subtle flavor that somehow managed to override the basic taste of ethanol. I served some at a party at which some Russian emigre mathematicians were present. One, taking a shot got wide-eyed and exclaimed "This is good!" I presume with the return of capitalism to Russia, there are now small Russian distillers making comparable high-end traditional vodka, and that -- unlike mass produced Russian vodka -- I'd like to try.