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If you look it up, the regular, platinum, and imperia are all straight vodka with different levels of distilling and filtering (Russians are all about filtering, "cleaner" is better for shots... No hangover, you just wake up still nicely drunk). Here's a breakdown:.You like the gold better than the platinum? What’s the difference in flavor?
Variants
- Russian Standard Vodka
- Original product launched in 1998
- Raw ingredients: winter grains from Russian Steppes, glacial water from Lake Ladoga
- Distilled four times and filtered four times through charcoal
- Russian Standard Gold
- Notes of vanilla, caramel, and spearmint
- Added ingredient Siberian ginseng extract
- Russian Standard Platinum
- Higher-end product, launched 2001
- Filtered additional two times through silver.
- Imperia
- The luxury brand, launched 2004
- Distilled additional four times.
- Filtered additional two times through quartz.
- Luxury brand