No Need to Drink your Cocktails Flat Anymore
LONDON, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- As the head bartender at the famed New York
restaurant One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Mike Lombardozzi knows a thing or two
about martinis. But even he was surprised when he replaced the premium vodka in
his specially created Pomegranate martini with O2 Sparkling Vodka, the first of
its kind.
"Everyone says that it is the best martini they have ever had," says
Lombardozzi, who has christened the drink the CosmO2.
O2 is the creation of Philip Maitland, a British entrepreneur and inventor,
who spent two years researching and developing a process to create a sparkling
spirit. http://www.sparklingvodka.com/
"Many thought it would be impossible," says Maitland, "but I persevered and
was awarded a patent in 2003."
O2 is made from a blend of wheat, malted barley and charcoal-filtered English
spring water. It is batch-distilled in 100-year-old copper pot stills and
infused with tiny bubbles. Available in Premium 80 proof, three times distilled,
and Super Premium 945, 94 proof and five times distilled, in crystal glass
bottles with twist caps.
"Drinking other vodkas is like drinking a flat soda. The taste is heavy and
dull while O2 electrifies cocktails adding a new dimension of taste, texture and
flavor," Maitland says.
The same excitement even extends to drinking O2 with food. O2 offers on its
Web site recipes for Tapastinis -- a combination of a drink and a tasty snack --
that solves the tricky problem at cocktail parties of how to balance a plate of
food and hold a drink at the same time.
For the Sushitini, all you need is a martini glass filled with chilled O2.
Add a cocktail stick with fresh pieces of fish, alternating with pieces of
ginger. Then garnish with a lemon twist. Different? Yes. Does it work? Most
definitely.
"Not only can you eat and drink without effort, but also experience how the
vodka actually enhances the food flavors," Maitland says.
O2 is currently rolling out across the U.S. and is available at restaurants
and nightclubs as well as wine and spirit retailers.
Imported by Admiral Imports, Cedar Grove, NJ, http://www.admiralimports.com/.
