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20/20’s Cocktail Taste Test Leads to Some Surprising Results

Are you a vodka snob? Do you routinely buy a pricey brand over a less expensive one? If so, you’re part of a growing trend. “20/20″ wanted to see what all the fuss was about … so we conducted a little test.

It’s 6:30 p.m. in New York City’s Times Square, typically happy hour, but not for our six subjects, who were all part of a little experiment conducted in the summer of 2005. The participants ranged in age from 21 to 40 years old, the prime cocktail-drinking demographic.

The laboratory was a popular restaurant and bar called Blue Fin. But instead of beakers and petri dishes, the chemicals we tested were found inside bottles — six vodka bottles.

Why Vodka Is King

Why was vodka the drink of choice for our subjects? One participant, Trevor Freeland, responded, “It’s simple, it pleases a lot of people.” Michael Gurock added: “I never feel like I have a bad hangover the next day whenever I have vodka.” And Melanie Weber said she chose it because “it can be mixed with a lot of different juices.”

If you’ve been to a bar recently, you know that once lowly vodka — invented on the cheap in Russia — is now the most popular hard liquor in America, comprising 27 percent of total volume in 2006, easily outselling rum, gin, whiskey and tequila.

What’s most striking about vodka’s rise is the huge sales of so-called super-premium brands, up 38 percent in the past year. You’ll know them by their remarkable bottles (one — Wyborowa — is designed by architect Frank Gehry) and by their even more remarkable prices: $30 to $60 and upward a bottle, up to four times the price of cheaper brands like Smirnoff, which sells for $13 a bottle.

Taste test participant Karen Kay told us she can perceive differences among brands. “With the lower-end vodkas I think I really taste a difference in the drink, like an aftertaste, almost,” she said.

What are their favorite brands? Weber preferred Ketel One. Freeland liked Belvedere best. And the remaining four favored Grey Goose.

From 007 to Carrie Bradshaw

 Amy Winehouse’s latest party trick is snorting vodka. The troubled singer - who checked out of a London rehab clinic last month - shocked onlookers when she nasally inhaled the potent spirit through a straw while partying with friends including Kelly Osbourne, Mark Ronson and Kimberly Stewart at London’s Bungalow 8 club on Wednesday (05.03.08).

A source said: “Somebody had brought over 20 shots to Amy’s table and she decided to show off her new party trick.

“She necked the top of the shot and lit the rest with a lighter. Then she grabbed a straw and sucked what was left up her nose.

“Amy threw back her head and reeled in shock and everyone around her looked stunned.”

Doctors have warned Amy’s party trick, known as a Gas Chamber, could be potentially lethal as alcohol is absorbed directly into the bloodstream.

Meanwhile, the 24-year-old ‘Rehab’ star flew into a rage yesterday (06.03.08) when she spotted an unauthorised biography about her on sale at her local London garage.

Amy - who popped into the shop to pick up some sweets on her way home after partying till 5am - demanded the £17 tome, titled ‘Amy, Amy, Amy: The Amy Winehouse Story’, be taken off the shelves immediately.

The book, by Nick Johnstone, details Amy’s rise to fame her battle with drink and drugs and the arrest of her husband Blake Fielder Civil, who is currently awaiting trial at London’s Pentonville Prison. (C) BANG Media International.

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