Grey Goose Essences Strawberry & Lemongrass Natural Flavoured Vodka Spirit Drink, Made with Grey Goose Vodka, Infused With Real Fruits & Botanical Essences, 30% ABV, 70cl / 700ml

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Today, Grey Goose is made from winter wheat grown in Picardy and distilled in Gensac by maître de chai François Thibault. He’s the man behind this latest product, Grey Goose Essences. “Grey Goose Essences has been a labour of love for both me and the brand. The freshest ingredients were meticulously searched for and a unique distillation process is used for each fruit and each botanical to ensure we captured the purest flavour in every bottle,” he said. Rather than just add flavour to vodka as in the past, Thibault uses techniques from gin production to make Grey Goose Essences. Some of the botanicals, which come from countries including France, Spain, Thailand and Sri Lanka, are infused while others are cold-distilled. And here’s the big change from flavoured vodkas of old, no added sugar. Do you remember flavoured vodka? If like me you grew up in the ‘90s you wouldn’t have been able to move for the stuff: strawberry vodka, bison grass vodka, vanilla vodka, and fiery chilli vodka that would make you cry when you had a shot. Ah, happy days! What has changed, however, is there are lots of new brands coming to the market either from small producers or from the big boys looking to exploit vodkas’ new-found fashionability. Enter Grey Goose Essences. Grey Goose is the original cult vodka. It was created by New York booze tycoon Sidney Frank who saw how successful Absolut was and thought he could easily sell something more premium (read the full story here). But rather than make his vodka in the US, or in more obvious countries like Finland, Sweden or Poland, he decided that Cognac in France would be the home of his new brand. After all, they do know a bit about distillation there.