re: What do you look for in a good vodka?

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Nuts

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Name checks out.

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Under the Code of Federal Regulations (27 CFR 5.22), which define the identity standards for various alcohols, vodka is in the class of neutral spirits and is defined as: "neutral spirits so distilled, or so treated after distillation with charcoal or other materials, as to be without distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color".

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If you’re paying for anything that a marketer tells you is distinctive, you are literally not buying vodka.

Price your purchase accordingly.

Kirklands $12.99/1.75 liters. That's all you need to know.

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There absolutely are distinctions.

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You are correct. But as I said earlier, many of these vodka producers develop finished recipes (taste profiles) after proofing the GNS (think Everclear) with water.

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Had a Russian roommate after college, he liked Absolut.

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Lots of Mexican people eat at Taco Bell too.
Not impressed by what someone says is good based on nationality.

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Sobieski is a real good vodka for the price, about $14. Only place I've found it is CVS. Our local CVS, oddly enough, has a real good liquor section

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Sobieski is excellent...it was my go to before Vitali/Caliber

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buy the big kirkland bottle from Costco.

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For s&g’s I bought a bottle of this and pored it in a Tito’s bottle, grey goos bottle, and a ketel one bottle and had a taste test at a tail gate. I forget the exact number, but it was a pretty even split amongst the 3. When I told them it was all kirklands they were embarrassed

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For s&g’s I bought a bottle of this and pored it in a Tito’s bottle, grey goos bottle, and a ketel one bottle and had a taste test at a tail gate. I forget the exact number, but it was a pretty even split amongst the 3. When I told them it was all kirklands they were embarrassed

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What a shitty thing to do.