Stolichnaya (Russian: Столичная) is a vodka made of wheat and rye grain. It originated in the Soviet Union in 1938. There are two versions of the vodka: the version found outside Russia is made in Latvia, while the version found inside Russia is made there.
Stolichnaya® Premium Vodka is the result of triple distillation in which heads and tails are wisely cut to give the distillate the highest recognized grade of quality, the Alpha Spirit one. Alpha Spirit is then filtered four times, before through quartz sand and then through birch charcoal.
Made from the finest wheat and distilled into the highest quality alcohol, the process starts in Latvia, at the magnificent Latvijas Balzams distillery (built by order of the Tsar in 1900) where the spirit is then filtered through charcoal and quartz sand and blended with pure artesian well water, to create vodka of ...