Why It Takes 7 Pounds of Potatoes to Make the Perfect Bottle of Vodka - Vendors
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2024
- Vodka is one the most popular distilled spirits in the world, and yet doesn't get the same recognition as other wines and spirits. Tad Dorda wants the change that. Since 1992, after taking over a distillery that had been operating since 1896, Dorda and his family have been crafting potato vodka at Chopin Vodka in Poland. Inspired by the music of renowned local composer Frédéric Chopin, the vodka producer strives to capture the beauty and richness of this creamy, flavorful drink in every bottle. Watch how the best potatoes are harvested, distilled, and bottled into this beloved spirit.
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Credits:
Series Lead: Carla Francescutti
Producer: Guillermo Riveros
Field Producers: Anna Muckerman, Mohamed Ahmed
Director: Guillermo Riveros
Camera: Anna Muckerman, Mohamed Ahmed
Editors: Anna Muckerman, Mohamed Ahmed
Interpreter: Anastazja Pindor
Subtitles: SAGA Translations
Executive Producer: Stephen Pelletteri
Director of Production: Stefania Orrù
Supervising Producer, Development: Gabriella Lewis
Post-Production Supervisor: Lucy Morales Carlisle
Audience Engagement: Frances Dumlao
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I like the CEO, very well spoken. Definitely a sales guy
He's extremely smooth.
@@HKim0072 Like his vodka? haha
He's pissed
If you look him up, he was actually a person behind elevating the status of Polish vodkas into a luxury spirits level in the US market and this success story is apparently discussed in marketing scholar books.
Yeah ceo = salesman
really love the Vendors series. the CEO absolutely has a great sense of humor lol
Thanks for watching!
As a fellow polish person, I commemorate eater for making a video in Poland
commemorEater ;)
I love the humbleness of the CEO, what a quaint little village. Thank you for sharing. Cheers from Australia.
Sustainable production, deep family roots, and a nod to Polish heritage - love how Chopin vodka preserves tradition while caring for the land. Truly a drink with a story! 🌱🇵🇱
Nice process, very direct. Shows real respect for the ingredient, letting it speak for itself in the product.
Literally my favorite vodka, and I can't stand it as a spirit normally. Chopin is definitely that gurl!!!
I love this channel, and I loved this episode. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
This episode will touch one million views.
I appreciate Chopin's music being played in the background
I love the CEO. He makes me want to try the vodka. LOL!
Thank you to the introduction to your vodka. I will be seeking out a bottle very soon!
Great job, tasting and creating new flavors. I want that job.
Potatoes are a staple in my diet, at least twice a week in the vodka!
Potatoes. Earth greatest root vegetable
Thank you to the Incas Empire for cultivating tubercule plant hundred of years ago in Peru, South America
Awesome video which made me learn a lot about Vodka surprisingly. I always love seeing deeper dives like this and "How it's made"
Are you listening, Grey Goose?? You cannot distill a spirit more than once!
Thank for doing this. Going to buy some Chopin vodka. From Canada.
great ending to - nice finishing touch
One of the best vodkas out there
This is a fascinating video, and Chopin is a great vodka. And the CEO just seems like a cool guy.
Great, now I want to get a bottle. 😮
This is beautiful work
Chopin is top shelf 💯 super smooth
As far as Vodka goes, Chopin is the GOAT! Has been my favorite for over two decades. Pro tip - always keep a bottle in the freezer.
Weird that the title tries to catch views with the seemingly high quantity made, but the CEO even emphesizes himself that the rather low quantity is a testament to the quality.
"How real traditional Potato Vodka is made in Poland"
Very interesting video, in a world of awful private equity it is great to see a well run decent company and production process.
Vodka was invented in Poland never forget it! The real stuff is the best stuff 💪
I live russian vodka. Its the best! Never forget
@@Politebanana1 Agreed.
@@Politebanana1 literally the worse copy... well thankfully that place wont exist much longer 😻
@@TheGrace020 Kind of like Poland didn't exist when it was dominated by the Russians.
Vodka was not invented, it was discovered. it's just a name for a distilled spirit. Distillation of alcohol was independently discovered all over the world and in the Slavic countries you might happen to call it vodka, but the chemical process is exactly the same for grain alcohol of all types. If you want to say Polish vodka is the best, I actually agree based on my experience, but it's not really something you can invent. Chinese and Korean netizens had a fight online a few years ago about how kimchi was actually invented in China, well no because fermentation was not invented by humans, it's a natural process and most cultures in the world have some form of fermented vegetable like sauerkraut or kimchi or pao cai.
Potato 🥔!
Im. Buying some tomorrow...try it out😮😢
Chopin is delicious and a personal favorite. Unfortunately, the little island I live on in the US doesn’t know that liquor can be ruined by heat and light, and half the bottles I’ve opened out here have gone rancid :/
What island
@@Mr.Hooter702 I would laugh out loud if he meant NYC
In the US we store potatoes for up to a year. There’s farms that are just recently shipping out the last of the potatoes from last years harvest as they are pulling this years harvest out of the ground.
In Poland too :) I think the mister there was saying about longer period - vodka is almost non-spoilable :D
we harvest potatoes every summer and store them in our cellar all year round....feeds us through winter
As a professional chef, I must say that older potatoes do not perform the same as newer potatoes. They are not bad, but you have to handle them differently.
@@TheChefmike66I guess this will be even more different with steamed, mashed, fermented and distilled potatoes.
Today, I realized vodka is made out of potatoes.
For people sensitive to grain alcohol this is the great alternative. Simply an outstanding vodka.
Not a Huge fan Of Vodka. But this is absolutely awesome ! They're Complaisant about who they are. 🤘🤘
REAL vodka is produced in Russia only
"distillation helps to preserve potatoes" 🤣
Distillation of grains and other starch and sugar bearing plants has always been used to preserve excess crops. The Whisky Rebellion in the early United States was the result of the government taxing the farmers excess crops that had been distilled to preserve them. No freezers or refrigeration in earlier times, you wouldn't want to let the excess rot after the hard work that went into producing them.
Well presented
My girlfriend hates it when i drink vodka but listening to the way the ceo talks i would just to spite my girlfriend
The potato is from Peru and there are 4,000 different kinds. I love potatoes and drank only vodka drinks when I drank alcohol. Great family. Thank you.
It's the Europeans who cultivated the mass majority of potatoes.
@@Mr.Hooter702 The Incas of Peru.
It’s from West Africa but what ever
@@williamelewis464 Prove it.
Great video! It's excellent vodka.
I'm always wondered how or if they separate the hearts of the alcohol from the heads and tails? To my taste buds, the majority of manufacturers just let it all run together as small batch run product tastes so much better and cleaner.
Trying to hype up ethanol water is crazy
Yes, Polish vodka !!!
I thought Baijiu was the biggest distilled spirit in the world.
he says 7lbs of potatoes per bottle not 7 potatoes
Yes
looking good... all clean using rvs metal
Das wusste ich nicht dass die würtze die katoffel ist!!😊
Vodka = no hangover 🎉
Is there a Retailer that sells Vodka in Glass Bottles and Not Plastic Bottles? Is there a Brand that is sold in Glass Bottles and Not Plastic Bottles?
I know plenty about this. I have a degree in it.
About 105 degrees Celsius
I mean, he’s correct. Have you ever heard of pickled potatoes? I looked it up, and apparently attempts don’t look promising, and they’re certainly not traditional. Potato jam? Same thing, not promising nor traditional. Basically, anything can be attempted by “trendy” chefs these days, and while these ones don’t look that good, it’s important to note that traditional Polish cooking really didn’t have a way to preserve potatoes. Alcohol was probably one of the earliest methods that came around when potatoes were brought back by settlers (vodka production in Poland via grain means is said to stretch back even to beyond the tenth century!)
Search for "chuño"
Distillation of grains and other starch and sugar bearing plants has always been used to preserve excess crops. The Whisky Rebellion in the early United States was the result of the government taxing the farmers excess crops that had been distilled to preserve them.
Potatoes can be powdered and dry flaked also canned
Vodka is vodka
"You cannot preserve potatoes in any other way!"
Ahm… the indigenous peoples of the Andes have been preserving them in many ways for thousands of years. White guy thinks he invented fire and discovered the wheel. Yes I said it that way on purpose.
the CEO reminds me very much of my dziadek in his mannerisms.
Bober kurwa, perdole yeki bedle! Apologies for the beaver meme. This was very interesting, thank you!
🤔Strasbourg 🤚
it's Wódka
Chance Court
If only I were Into alcohol.
Bro, you are missing out
i tried vodka. woke up peed on the bed 😂
Hi I would like vodka made from potatoes grown by the potatoes family please
Vodka does smell and tastes aufull
🥂
There is no such thing as a vodka martini.
😍😍
perkele
Vodka is ethanol. I distilled the best vodka I’ve ever had from Murasaki Sweet potatoes. Grey goose is just filtered Taaka.
Vodka is rectified (96% and higher, depending on the target standard). This means that it does not matter what you make it from. Difference in taste and texture produced by additional ingredients. If you produce spirit with taste of potatoes that only means it is not vodka (which in most cases superior result).
Vodka is for alcoholics 😂😂🎉🎉 cheers
So, basically, a shot of premium vodka is one of your 5-a-day! 🍅🌽🫑🍍🍸
Over here in Germany in some regions a vodka like spirit from Tobinambur is made. It is a distinct flavor and usually drank as a shot.
Vodka is just korn... The difference being vodka is less regulated, less quality and can be made from any starch sources. so Topinambur is just one of the many raw materials u can make vodka/spirits from. Vodka can be made from anything.
It is these people who claim to be natives in Palestine.
Someone needs to teach their house bartender how to properly stir a martini.
sounds like you are the one that needs the teaching... the guy in the video did it the way it is supposed to be done. literally.
@@orion7741 Then you obviously have no idea what you’re talking about. I’ve been bartending and training bartenders for decades. He’s being too sloppy and choppy with his spoon, causing way too much aeration. A proper stir is smooth and silent without aerating the spirit, especially with a vodka martini where the viscosity of the cocktail is most important. Stick to subjects you’re educated on.
"How?" is not the question.
Why is vodka made?
Flavorless nothing, get drunk liquid.
I'm wondering how many lifes where destroyed by this stuff...
First 🥇
It is wrong to say that products cannot be distilled more than once. Cognac is made with a double level distillation.
I think he just meant the initial distillation where we’re separating the spirit from the purée of water and grain or potatoes or grapes or whatever else is being made into a spirit. That “true” distillation can only be done once because, after that, there is no more separating the alcohol from something else that isn’t alcohol as the alcohol already exists. Now it just needs to be adjusted in ways specific to what is being made.
All vodka taste the same
the CEO that says "you cant distill a product more than once", obviously does not actually know much of anything about the distillation process. that is one of the most asinine comments I have ever heard somebody say when talking about distillation.... it is 100% wrong. I is very common practice to take the product after first distillation and then put it back through the still to distill it further. it is how you cut out certain flavors and also make it a higher percentage of alcohol. this is something that nearly every distillery does, EVEN HIS..... his comment just shows his ignorance about the process and that he is only a business guy and has nothing to do with the actual product production.
He's deflecting, he's well aware there are plenty of other much better vodkas out there then are predominantly triple or greater distilled.
Or maybe a old guy who spent his whole life distiling knows about it more than you? The real ignorance is jumping straight to conclusions and insults without spending a single second trying to understand what the person meant. You're a prime example of a person stupid enough to think they're actually smart.
@@MuppetsSh0w no, you are trolling there. Plenty of comments explaining exactly why what he said is wrong. You do understand there are people with chemistry degrees right? Also professional brewers, home brewers. These are not new concepts, they are very well understood and documented. The old guy was being salty taking a pop at the competitors, most of whom have a better product that sells in far higher quantities.
@@TheChodax "Also professional brewers, home brewers."
And what do professional and/or home brewers have to do with distillation?
absolutely haram. cool video tho
Who asked u too watch it 🤣
9:31 wrong! The Incas and now the Peruvians preserve potatoes by freez-drying. The result it’s called "chuño"
I mean Americans have had dried potato for decades. Just add hot water and boom, mashed potato
@@Sparks00psn Edward Anton Maria Asselbergs (1927-1996) was a Dutch-Canadian food chemist famous for inventing the modern process of producing instant mashed potato flakes in 1960.
@@SonoIlFactotum U.S. Patent 1025373, developed by Ernest William Cooke, titled "Dehydrate Potatoes and Process of Preparing the Same", and describing a product that was to be reconstituted in hot water, was applied for in 1905 and granted in 1912.
Does it taste like French fries? 🍟
…of course I’m joking
Vodka is 🤮
Potato vodka it;s not vodka at all. Good quality odka is made from the best wheat and spring water. Make the same video about vodka from tomatoes or even from birch tree chips (as they made in Karelia, Russia), technically it's vodka,but in fact it's cheap moonshine or junk.
Wtf are you waffling about
the lint on the glass rim at 37 secs
Vodka taste like rubbing alcohol.
Have you tasted rubbing alcohol? 😮🤣🤣🤣
They took a few design tips from Chase Vodka with that bottle design. 😉