


The only downside is they don’t make flavored vodka so for that you’ll have to stick to Goose or try another brand. Although the price has climbed up a few dollars since then, the quality remains the same. Years ago, when they first became popular, the staff at my bar did a blind taste test comparing Titos, Ketel One, Grey Goose, and Stoli. Hailing from Texas, they make gluten-free vodka using a corn distillate. Titos is a huge name in Vodka right now, and while not marketed as a luxury brand, it is high quality. It derives its flavor from the essence of ripe french black cherries from the southern Basque region and has a juicy, rich, cherry flavor. Inspired by Clafoutis, a French baked pastry filled with black cherries, Grey Goose Cherry Noir is their Black Cherry flavored bottling. Grey Goose Le Melon uses the essence of ripe Cavaillon Charentais melons to create this summertime vodka with sweet notes of honeysuckle and juicy melon. The melons are so famous that accounts of their quality date back to the 1400s, and famed author Alexandre Dumas once traded copies of his books The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers for an annual shipment of twelve melons recurring for the rest of his life. The melon even has its own dedicated order of knights that inspect the melons for sugar content, ripeness, flavor, size, and color. Cavaillon Charentais melons are famous for their rich honey-like flavor and are described as a far superior version of an American cantaloupe. The melon for Grey Goose’s Le Melon vodka is grown in the Cavaillon region of southern France.
