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Sophisticated & Slim Summer Cocktails

Summer heat has us drinking slimmer, or at least thinking about it!  Vodka definitely comes to mind in that category. But though vodka is typically a neutral tasting spirit, I had the pleasure of tasting an amazing vodka recently. Yes, that’s right–tasting!

Purity Vodka is an organic brand of vodka that is still new to the US markets (available only in California, Georgia, New Jersey, and New York so far).  But don’t let its “new” status fool you! Made from estate grown wheat and barley mixed with the purest water from an artesian well, Purity Vodka is full-bodied, complex, and loaded with character–a front-runner in the new, and what I like to coin as the “Complex Character,” genre of vodkas. Vodka with taste!

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