Move over gin: Why Vodka will be the spirit of the summer 

Vodka does not get enough love. Sales may have dropped a little in  recent years but it remains Ireland’s biggest selling spirit and is very much back in vogue, says Leslie Williams 
Move over gin: Why Vodka will be the spirit of the summer 

Vodka does not get enough love. Sales may have dropped a little in recent years but it remains Ireland’s biggest selling spirit at 32% (Whiskey is 26%) and is very much back in vogue.

Vodka is the blank canvas of the cocktail world offering texture and alcohol zing, but allowing other ingredients their place in the limelight. It is the pasta, the potatoes, the rice - and it is up to us to project flavour and personality onto it.

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