Once in a cold shot glass, Smirnoff smells like my older sister sneaking drinks in an Allentown hotel on summer vacation -- not a crisp damn wave to be found but plenty of fuzzy navels and loud ...

Vodka starts with your base ingredient (often a grain, though it could be potatoes or molasses), water and yeast. That mixture is fermented for a couple of weeks, then strained.

Hold the olive. Ingredients: 50ml Smirnoff No.21 Vodka 15ml Belsazar Dry Vermouth 10ml Olive brine Dash DASH -1.4% of saline optional Pickles (to garnish) Preparation: 1.

In 2019, Smirnoff sold 2.5 million cases, the most of any spirits label in the U.S., and Tito’s vodka clocked in at No. 2, selling 1.7 million cases.