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Entry: The Politics of Vodka Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_politics_of_vodka#23795 Post contents: Ah, how felicitous! The best vodka I ever tasted was samogon (literally, "self-fired" but a very easy "homebrew"). My girlfriend's boss was uniting with a Ukrainian girl, and we were all invited to the wedding. (Oddly, and perhaps apropos, she was Catholic.) The second day per tradition we reassembled and went to a small island in the Dnieper. Food was shashlik, somewhat poorly done. (I'd been spoiled by Armenian shashlik in Kazakhstan.) Drink was samogon, provided by the bride's grandmother. It was, without question, the smoothest, cleanest vodka I had ever tasted. That's a nice memory. Sent at: 2008 07 24