re: #85 JC1

100%. Tito’s is overrated. Actually, the best deal on vodka, IMHO, is the Kirkland brand at Costco. It’s essentially Gray Goose at 1/4th the price.

I’ll take your word for it, but I’m a potato, not a grain spirit guy.

Grain spirit vodkas taste like whatever you mix with it, IMO, but potato vodka actually *tastes* like something. It’s subtle, agreed, but it’s there and the good ones don’t kick my head like a mule the next day.

And don’t get me started on Martinis, which are made of gin, varying levels of dry vermouth, and olives. No substitutes. Hell, replace olives with pickled onions and it’s a Gibson.

Anyone who orders a Vodka Martini, either shaken or stirred, is ordering a vodka drink, not a Martini.

I’m a purist on this, and it’s a hill I choose to die on. And get the hell off my lawn!