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X MUSE Vodka 70cl with Gift Box (Tenth Muse) - Scottish Barley Vodka Distilled and Bottled in Scotland - 40% Alcohol By Volume (X Muse Vodka with Gift Box)

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Robert: I met Vadim serendipitously when he attended an event at Jupiter Artland, and it was very much a meeting of minds. We discussed our shared passion for philosophy, alchemy, creative spirit and actual spirits. Vadim: The most important sense responsible for our appreciation of wine and spirits is taste, while the nose gives us most of the pleasure. With X MUSE, we wanted to create a new generation vodka that defies the notion of vodka being something tasteless and odourless. Home / Food & Drink / Wine, Beer & Spirits X Muse Vodka: The luxury drinks brand to add to your cabinet this summer X MUSE, pronounced ‘tenth muse’, is the first blended barley vodka inspired by the spirit making traditions of Scotland. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.

Design research studio Formafantasma – Wallpaper* Designers of the Year 2021– teamed up with crystal glass manufacturer Lobmeyr to bring the X Muse Helicon tasting workshops to life, creating elements such as glassware, bottles, glorifiers, tableware and containers for presenting ingredients. The studio also created the X Muse Temple, the physical embodiment of the brand. Founders Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin sought to avoid ‘certain clichés in the world of alcohol’ and instead sensitively ritualise the ‘good side of drinking’. ‘There is this part of alcohol that should be recognised and not necessarily seen as evil. This is a way of celebrating this,’ says Farresin. A new luxury spirit for the discerning drinker, XMUSE, pronounced ‘tenth muse’, is the brainchild offormer Pernod Ricard Senior Marketer Vadim Grigoryan and co-creator ofEdinburgh’s sculpture park Jupiter Artland, Robert Wilson. X MUSE is the first Scottish blended barley vodka and the first to tread the intersection of Scottish spirit making traditions and art thinking. Barley has been cultivated and celebrated since before history began. In Egypt, it formed part of the burial rites and is linked to the resurrection myth of Osiris, where the sprouting of barley seeds sown in the belly of the dead god symbolised his return to life. In ancient Greece, an ear of barley signified the eternal cycle of resurrection after death in the Eleusinian Mysteries. Barley holds strong elements of symbolism and significance and its cultivation is older than written history. In ancient Greece, an ear of barley represented eternal life and the cycle of resurrection after death within Eleusinian Mysteries. It is also likely that the barley was the basis of the very first ever alcoholic beverages consumed by Neolithic man, and today, barley is at the core of spirit-making traditions throughout Scotland. From the old to the new When it comes to creating X MUSE, what do you do at home to train your nose, palate and senses to be the best they can be?

X MUSE, pronounced ‘tenth muse’, is the first blended barley vodka inspired by the spirit making traditions of Scotland. Drawn from the history and experience of Scottish spirit-making, heritage barleys and the purest water, it has been three years in development under the stewardship of former Pernod Ricard Global Director of Creativity and Luxury Vadim Grigoryan and Robert Wilson, co-creator of Jupiter Artland and co-owner of Nelsons, the leading Natural Medicine manufacturer. This week in pictures sees Douglas Blyde head to Scotland with X Muse vodka, Rémy Martin host a star-studded popup in New York, and staff writer Louis Thomas witness the start of the Moscato harvest in Asti. X Muse vodka Coming from a 15-year career at Pernod Ricard, I had long held the desire to create a brand that would be culturally enriching and respectful of its ingredients, so pointed out to Robert that most spirits comprise of 60% water and if using quality water coming from an exceptionally beautiful, natural water source, it could greatly contribute to the taste and perception of the resulting spirit. Robert: Yes, we have excitedly just announced Carlo Scotto as our first-ever Gastronomy Muse. Carlo is a fantastically creative chef, and the partnership is very much anchored in our shared passions for pushing boundaries in quality, flavour and refined experiences in both drink and food.We will be working with him design creative food pairings for X MUSE that will be released throughout the year. The first of these, is his Yuba Tartelette, made with Scottish salmon, yuzu jelly and pistachio as a nod to X MUSE’s Scottish roots and his own Italian heritage and international culinary influences. The dish was conceived as a perfect savoury pairing to accompany sipping the vodka neat or with the X MUSE signature martini. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community.

That is the spirit maker’s ultimate challenge. X Muse focuses on its purity and intricate flavours, with strong beliefs that quality vodka can not be bolstered by botanicals or left in oak barrels, but must be recognised for its own values. This is the measure of X Muse.”The Anglo-Argentinean artist is the first to have collaborated with the brand as part of their Reveal Series, producing just 99 hand-painted and foiled bottles which will go on sale in October. Having drawn inspiration from the long-standing methods, elements, ingredients and processes traditionally used in Scottish distillation practices and integrating them with ancient arts and new sciences, the brains behind X Muse have studied an array of spirit-making traditions and the originations within alchemy, consistently looking at forward-thinking options whilst adopting science and technology when required. X Muse vodka is derived from quiet innovation and a refusal to be constricted by the usual normality

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