Arnautovic Premium Vodka

Arnautovic Vodka was created with the Austrian footballer Marko Arnautovic and produced at an award-winning Viennese distillery. It is built from a special Austrian grain blend cut with pure alpine spring water, and the distillery uses vacuum distillation, a method that lowers the boiling point so the spirit is distilled at gentler temperatures and arrives softer and rounder. Grain gives the base a mild, lightly sweet character, and the low-temperature process is meant to keep that delicacy intact. It is bottled at 40% and pitched first and foremost as a vodka to drink on its own.

The nose is mild and inviting, and the palate is gently sweet with a complex, rounded character that carries into a long, harmonious finish. Because the maker built it to be sipped, serve it straight from the freezer in a small chilled glass, where the cold tightens the texture and the grain's soft sweetness comes through cleanly, with nothing more than a cold, neutral nibble such as plain crackers alongside.