Tesco have 70cl bottles of Stolichnaya Premium Vodka down to £13 online and in-store at the moment (was £20). Great deal for one of the best vodkas available at this price (my opinion of course).
Latest comments (23)
gary_rip
26 Apr 16#23
Despite showing out of stock my Vodka just shipped from Amazon. Hope its as nice as you lot say it is!
Malabus
21 Apr 16#22
The best vodka you can get around this price.
10minutesemail
19 Apr 161#17
"Русский Стандарт" is indeed in Russian using Cyrillic (alphabet) and is not gimmick.
- transcript into latin alphabet would be: Russkij Standart
- translation into English would be: Russian Standard
bladesuk1 to 10minutesemail
19 Apr 16#21
dammit. i'll be having words with my father-in-law...
probably shouldn't have believed him, given the amount of vodka i was actually drinking at the time :wink:
but no, russian standard is not a particularly smooth vodka, although it's better than most supermarket brands. i'd still recommend either stolichnaya or luksosowa over it.
gary_rip
19 Apr 16#20
Amazon have price matched Tesco also (currently out of stock but saves me trip to Tesco).
Cameron92
19 Apr 16#19
A great drink for psychos.
senukas
19 Apr 16#18
Your Russian language skills are amazing (NOT)!
Post #17 gives you a simple explanation....
dimon72
19 Apr 16#16
Russian Standard has water from Lake Ladoga, making it very smooth even for mid range vodka. Tried this and many others, always come back to Russian Standard, Stoli is better when flavoured vodka wanted. As for the Cyrillic gimmick, try "Русский Стандарт" in google translate, you'll find it spells Russian Standard exactly, I didn't believe either.
PS. OP, good find, will get some at this price for drink cabinet variety.
k7gixerboy
19 Apr 16#15
Great stuff, much nicer than grey goose IMO! Heat added
plodging
18 Apr 161#14
This is probably the best of the cheaper end of the market and good for £13. Btw if you ever see Russian standard platinum cheap buy it ... Really smooth , got a bottle in tesco at xmas for £11 ,very impressive and smoother than grey goose .
dck
18 Apr 16#11
Is this better or worse than Russian Standard?
guv'nor to dck
18 Apr 161#12
Down to personal taste really, both are very good mid-range vodkas. I personally prefer Stoli, but genuinely enjoy both
bladesuk1 to dck
18 Apr 162#13
much better. doesn't have any of the harsh, oiliness of russian standard.
as an aside, you know the cyrillic lettering on the front of the russian standard bottle? it's not russian. someone typed 'russian standard' into a word processor, highlighted it, and selected 'cyrillic' as the font.
merckx
18 Apr 16#10
I haven't sampled much in the way of vodka but I do appreciate that they all have distinctive flavours, I've tried many good brand's of whiskey that we used to buy my Dad for Xmas and I can tell the difference but I would struggle to say they're nice.
Is it all about just appreciating the different ingredients, to be honest I just can't see the point myself but I have nothing against thoughs that do?
RCUK
18 Apr 16#9
Agreed re GG price - no way is it worth double Stoli.
RCUK
18 Apr 161#8
Try Belvedere Cherry.. truly outstanding!
RCUK
18 Apr 161#4
Have a bottle in the freezer - and best mid price vodka out there i reckon.
So so much nicer than your Absolut or Smirnoff, but not grey goose or belvedere smooth.
guv'nor to RCUK
18 Apr 16#7
I like Grey Goose but feel it's very overrated, especially for it's price. Belvedere is very nice though, one of my favourites
ayeup1
18 Apr 16#5
I'm guessing this isn't paint stripper then?
guv'nor to ayeup1
18 Apr 16#6
It's a very smooth vodka and tastes very nice. It always rates very high in polls, even compared to more expensive vodkas. Highly recommended, especially at this price.
sradmad
18 Apr 161#3
good find op, heat added
Seb_WTF
18 Apr 161#2
This and zubrowka, best (cheap) vodkas. Have some heat
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- transcript into latin alphabet would be: Russkij Standart
- translation into English would be: Russian Standard
probably shouldn't have believed him, given the amount of vodka i was actually drinking at the time :wink:
but no, russian standard is not a particularly smooth vodka, although it's better than most supermarket brands. i'd still recommend either stolichnaya or luksosowa over it.
Post #17 gives you a simple explanation....
Russian Standard has water from Lake Ladoga, making it very smooth even for mid range vodka. Tried this and many others, always come back to Russian Standard, Stoli is better when flavoured vodka wanted. As for the Cyrillic gimmick, try "Русский Стандарт" in google translate, you'll find it spells Russian Standard exactly, I didn't believe either.
PS. OP, good find, will get some at this price for drink cabinet variety.
as an aside, you know the cyrillic lettering on the front of the russian standard bottle? it's not russian. someone typed 'russian standard' into a word processor, highlighted it, and selected 'cyrillic' as the font.
Is it all about just appreciating the different ingredients, to be honest I just can't see the point myself but I have nothing against thoughs that do?
So so much nicer than your Absolut or Smirnoff, but not grey goose or belvedere smooth.