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Tasting: HR VODKA [Vinexpo 2009]

With HR VODKA, who takes the initials of its back-big mother Helen Raffin, Bertrant Laclie pays tribute to “the avant-garde first one of the family”.

Eduqué by his parents producers of cognac and pineau in Bercloux, in Charente - Maritime, Bertrand Laclie develops from now on his own products, leaning on a family know-how and " appealing marketing ideas ". Among his creations, four vodkas, in homage to his back-big mother Helen Raffin, HR VODKA.

HR VODKA IMPORTED
The bottles of HR VODKA are drawn “to knock in the eye of the women”, drawing inspiration from codes of the perfumers: hurt silhouette, purified design, typo fine, Distilled in the still charentais family, these four vodkas are of a base of wheat of the region.
Colour: translucent
Nose: silky and fine
Mouth: frank and round attack, notes of grain, tightened on a final light, short and added pepper

HR VODKA ORGANIC
The wheat used for HR VODKA ORGANIC is of origin biological certified Poitou-Charente and the must comes from the brasserie of his brother, Philippe Laclie, producer of Bercloise.
Colour: translucent
Nose: silky and fine
Mouth: very smooth and fatty attack, no short final, light, frank, wise, female feeling of ethanol, notes of wheat

HR VODKA JASMINE
The aromatisation in the jasmine is got by addition of natural aroma fabricated by a local artisan.
Colour: pink very clear candy
Nose: cool, flower (jasmine), feminine
Mouth: fine attack, shifty aromas of grains then jasmine full flower, very persistent final powerful, aromatic and added pepper

HR VODKA TEA and Pepper
The aromatisation in the tea and pepper is got by addition of natural aroma fabricated by a local artisan.
Colour: translucent
Nose: cool green tea, discreet pepper
Mouth: silky attack which goes up crescendo up to final by way of the light pepper then the explosive green tea and finally once again the pepper, long and persistent

Sebastian Foulard
Vodka&Co.

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