Kavka Tokaji named ‘Category Champion for Vodka 2024’ at The Bartenders’ Brand Awards
CLASS Magazine’s Bartenders’ Brand Awards is a unique blind tasting, design and value-tested competition for drinks products available to the UK bar industry. The competition is now in its seventh year, it enables brands to be judged and endorsed by some of the most renowned and influential stars in the bar world.
Kavka Tokaji Vodka is delicate and delicious with subtle fruit notes, light oak and a lasting depth. Launched in 2022 and made in small batches, Kavka Tokaji (46% ABV) is a blend of fine grain spirits and small quantities of plum and apple pot-still fruit spirits. Aged for 18 months in Hungarian 6 Puttonyos Tokaji casks, Kavka Tokaji Vodka was created in homage to the classic Polish spirit, Starka, where a father would bury a cask of spirit on the birth of a daughter and dig up again on her wedding day.
— KAVKA TOKAJI ESPRESSO MARTINI —
50ml Kavka Tokaji Vodka | 50ml Fresh Coffee | 25ml Coffee Liqueur | 5ml Sugar Syrup | Garnish – Coffee Beans
Combine all the ingredients with ice and shake well. Strain into a martini glass and garnish with coffee beans
NOSE: Mellow fruit notes with an underlying layer of fresh rye bread and grain notes.
PALATE: Elegant, indulgent mouth feel. A light richness, underlined by light oak notes, followed by a creaminess with grain and rye bread notes. All merging into a rich flavour.
FINISH: Rich-dry balance, with emerging fruit notes of apples and prunes, light oak & Tokaji sweetness
Drawing on the long vodka making heritage of Poland, Kavka goes back to a time in the 19th century when many distilleries would produce spirits that emphasised taste and individuality rather than trying to filter them out. Following a traditional method that was famed for producing some of the best vodkas, Kavka blends fine rye and wheat spirits and then adds small quantities of aged pot stilled fruit spirits – apple and plum. The fruits are distilled at the ancient market town of Sandomierz in the heart of Poland’s orchards, using old varietals that give an amazing intensity.
Kavka Tokaji RRP: From £44.95 for 70cl. ABV: 46%. Available from: Amazon, Master of Malt and Hedonism Wines
