Chopin Family Reserve Extra Rare Young Potato Vodka

Chopin Family Reserve sits at the top of the house's range, and like the rest of the Chopin line it is a single-ingredient vodka, here built from young potatoes worked by hand in small batches at the distillery in Poland. Potato as a base gives vodka a fuller, creamier and more textured body than grain, and the young-potato spin pushes that toward a soft, complex character rather than a clean neutral one. It is bottled at 40% and arrives in a gift box, and the bottling took Vodka of the Year at Meininger's International Spirits Award in 2024.

The nose is pure and clean, with fresh potato, light citrus and a hint of creamy vanilla. The palate is soft and complex, a velvety potato sweetness with subtle spice and a fine citrus freshness that rounds off the close, and the finish is long and smooth. A vodka with this much body and detail is wasted in a cocktail, so drink it neat: chill the bottle hard, pour a small measure into a cold glass and sip it slowly, letting the creamy potato texture and the layered finish do the work on their own.