Melrose Ave Is Infused with Green Thanks to the World’s Most Iconic Vodka
Green Way LA(TM) and ABSOLUT(R) VODKA, along with city partners, unveiled an innovative “Green Street” project that starts at the famed Melrose Avenue and will transform the 600 block of Vista Street into a model of urban sustainability. Green Way LA accepted a [...]

UK. In the year of its launch, Pinky vodka became the second best-selling super premium vodka in World Duty Free stores, with 12% of category share.
Introduced to the travel retail channel in November 2007, Pinky is described as ‘the world’s most beautiful vodka’ and features a striking, fragrances-inspired bottle design.
World Duty Free Head of Category [...]

South Carolina knows a little something about sweet tea — even in its vodka. The Firefly Distillery on Wadmalaw Island, 30 miles south of Charleston, infuses American tea and Firefly vodka. The company also makes muscadine wine-flavored vodka, inspired by the native Southern grape grown in the vineyard at the distillery. Available at liquor stores [...]

With retailers struggling to find credit and ordinary Russians being forced to change their spending, a vast lake of undrunk vodka is accumulating in distilleries across Russia.
Official statistics indicate a collapse in demand for vodka over the past two months. November inventories of unsold vodka stock have risen to 82 million liters, a 600 per [...]

Sean “Diddy” Combs stars in a new ad spot for Ciroc Vodka, where he will be showing consumers “The Art of Celebration.”
On October 8, the CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment will make his official debut as the brand’s spokesperson with a 30-second ad spot. Originally, the chairman of the brand was the legendary Frank Sinatra. [...]

It sounds like something only Homer Simpson could love, but at some local bars, bacon-infused alcohols are becoming an increasingly popular reality. The idea is a bit off-putting at first, but when you think about it in the context of a Bloody Mary, which is how they serve it at brunch at Church, (garnished with [...]

ILLEGAL traders have been flogging knock-off vodka which leads to permanent blindness on the streets of Ealing.
Trading Standards officers recently confiscated more than 100 bottles of fake versions of Spar own brand Imperial Vodka, containing methanol.
The toxic alcoholic compound has been known to cause blindness and could be lethal in large doses.
Trading standards has [...]

FRANCE HAS given the world Burgundy and Champagne. New York’s contributions include the Manhattan and the Long Island iced tea. Even the tiny Caribbean island of Curaçao has placed a bright blue bottle in the pantheon of potent potables.
And Los Angeles? How about a vodka flavored with pomegranate, blueberry, acerola cherry and açai berry? That’s [...]

One of the most renowned European luxury vodka brands is expanding to the United States. Dragon Bleu Vodka, distilled in the Champagne area of France and consistently recognized among the world’s best vodkas, is to launch in Michigan before distribution across North America in late 2008 and 2009.
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Bloomfield Hills-based RGI Brands LLC is leading the [...]

Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone, mighty destroyer of Soviet opponents in the “Rambo” and “Rocky” movies, now plans to advertise Russian vodka.
Russian vodka producer Synergy said it signed a one-year contract with Stallone, who will appear in television and newspaper advertisements for Russian Ice vodka, starting Sept. 1.
Sources valued the deal at $1million.
Stallone - whose film [...]