42 Below's manuka honey vodka is made with the purest ingredients. The honey is taken from special beehives placed in New Zealand's manuka tree plantations. Unlike most honeys, manuka is darker & more savoury with oaky flavours & a hint of caramel. To make the premium vodka, the raw manuka honey is vapourised by applying direct heat, driving off steam, that condenses into a rich essence. 42 Below Vodka is then infused with the honey essence. The complex flavours are easily absorbed & create a unique spirit that is drinkable either over ice or as part of a premium cocktail like 'honey on the rocks' or 'manuka mule'. 42 Below Vodkas have already won a series of awards & are capturing the imagination of leading bartenders, mixologists & sommeliers around the world. In December 2003, 42 Below Vodka was judged first equal in a professional blind tasting of 18 of the world's best vodkas for The Independent Newspaper & scored 90-95/100 with Wine Enthusiast Magazine, USA. Pure wheat grain with no genetic modification & no genetic engineering, 4 distillations, 35 filtrations & volcanic spring water welled from thousands of feet underground make 42 Below vodkas as pure as you can get. 42 Below pure vodka blends the smoothness of Polish vodkas with the cleanness of Scandinavian vodkas to achieve a smooth, full-bodied spirit with generous grain flavours & a nice peppery finish. ...

The pureness & clarity of 42 Below's multi-award winning vodka is combined with the sweet round tartness of passion fruit to create this most softly nuanced of tipples. It is all in the method. No sugar, no fruit concentrate, no artificial ingredients. 42 Below passion-fruit vodka is the purest of vodka infused with the purest of passion-fruit. The very essence of the fruit is distilled from its pulp & steeped into the vodka to achieve a blend that is as cool as it is warm, & as soft as it is dry & it's the perfect base for a diverse range of drinks. Try it long & tall, with citrus juices, tonic & ice, sip it on the rocks or in a cocktail of your own! ...

Distilled near a world benchmark for air purity, 42 degrees below the equator & from GM Free wheat from the purist wheat-fields in the world. Distilled three times, then the spirit is washed in spring water, reducing the level of alcohol to 6%. This cleans any remaining impurities. It is then distilled a fourth time to create totally pure spirit. This is high saturation distilling, with New Zealand Spring water, which is unique to 42 Below. 42 Below is a smooth, full, grain-based vodka similar in style to vodkas produced in Scandinavian countries, which differ from the potato & rye-based vodkas typical of Russia & Pol&. A characteristic of grain-based vodkas is that they have a smoother taste than their rye or potato-based counterparts. 42 Below is batch-distilled just out of Wellington by a distiller with more than 20 years experience in the industry, using water that has attained the highest purity rating possible. ...

The distinctive fruit has been picked by the bucket-load, to obtain the purest fruit essence, pure enough to match the sanctity of ingredients in 42 Below vodka. 42 Below do not just add feijoa juice or synthesize the flavour. They collect the flesh of the fruit. They gather the heady, fruity steam produced when it is heated. They turn that into a liquid which is the very essence of the feijoa, & they infuse that into the vodka. The result is a crystal-pure vodka infused with the intense flavours & aromas of this slightly citrus, slightly sweet, very fresh & almost strange fruit. A fruit well known by New Zealanders & South Americans, but little known elsewhere. A real backyard fruit
- & that is where you find the ingredients to go with it such as fresh mint, local apple & pear juices or citruses. It is a world first from 42 Below & there are more unique flavours up their sleeves yet!
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