#205 The Obvious question is 'why did we do this?'

When I first saw Crystal Head Vodka, I thought it was a hoax, but desperately wanted it not to be!  With Dan Aykroyd talking about the “implicit potential indestructibility of the soul” concerning us in the online video, and then a spirit’s buff coming onto the screen and talking about filtering through diamonds, meant that this had to be a wonderfully constructed con.  After all, if diamonds are tough enough to cut glass I’m pretty certain that if you pour vodka on them, the liquid is just going to trickle through the gaps between the stones and they are not going to have an influence on the vodka!

So to review it.   The first thing you have to review is the packaging.  I know it shouldn’t matter when you are reviewing a spirit, but with this insane product, you have to review it. It is spectacular!  Not everyone’s cup of tea, I will grant you, but the bottle is unique and, for a brand, unrivalled in it’s immediate impact.

I don’t imagine for one second that this bottle, made by Bruni Glass, comes cheap.  And as a result, you have to ask what the vodka is actually like.  It costs over forty dollars, so you really need to have a decent product.

The aroma is of hints of pepper, a creamy element too and quite a fresh, sea air without the salt aroma.  The palate is quite oily, and very alcoholic, but it is vodka so it is supposed to be!  There is more of the pepper on the palate, it is quite spicy but still quite clean.  It isn’t bad, but it is, after all, vodka!

You really aren’t going to be buying this for the product, you are buying it for the very cool skull bottle as a conversation piece.  You will talk about the bottle, then you will talk about the crazy video with Dan Aykroyd in it, all the while drinking the product,   And for that, it is worth the money you are paying for it.

Just for the record, if Crystal Head Vodka want to fly me to Canada to change my mind about the diamond filtering, I’d be most happy to go!!!

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