Smirnoff is a brand of
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owned and produced by the
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company
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. The Smirnoff brand began with a
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founded in
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by Pyotr Arsenievich
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(1831–1898), the son of illiterate Russian peasants. It is now distributed in 130 countries.
Smirnoff products include
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,
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, and
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s. In March 2006, Diageo North America claimed that Smirnoff vodka was the best-selling distilled spirit brand in the world.
Smirnoff numbers
Most Smirnoff products have an identifying number that is displayed on the label. Some of these numbers are:
- 21: Smirnoff Red Label, 40% ABV
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.
- 21: Smirnoff North (previously Smirnoff Norsk). This is the classic Smirnoff Red Label vodka flavored with Nordic Berries. In the United Kingdom
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and some other markets, it is called Smirnoff Nordic Berries.
- 21: Smirnoff Classic Mix. Smirnoff No. 21 vodka premixed with either lime soda or cola in a 70-cl bottle.
- 21: Smirnoff "Expertly Mixed". Smirnoff No. 21 vodka premixed with Cola or Tonic Water in a 250ml can. Cola mix is 6.4% abv, Tonic is 7.5% abv.
- 21: Smirnoff Vodka and Cranberry Juice. Smirnoff No. 21 vodka premixed with Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice in a 250-ml can.
- 21: Smirnoff Mule. Smirnoff No. 21 vodka premixed with ginger beer and lime. 4.8% ABV
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- 21: Smirnoff Espresso. Coffee-flavored Smirnoff vodka, 37.5% ABV
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.
- 27: Smirnoff Silver Label Vodka, 45.2% ABV
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.
- 55: Smirnoff Black, 40% ABV
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. A small-batch vodka that is produced in copper stills.
- 57: Smirnoff Blue Label Vodka, 50% ABV
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- 60: Smirnoff Vladimir, 40%. Available only in Poland
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- 63: Smirnoff Twisted V Green Apple
- 64: Smirnoff Ice Pomegranate malt beverage, 5.5% ABV
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- 66: Smirnoff Ice Raspberry Burst malt beverage, 5.0% ABV
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- 66: Smirnoff Twisted V Raspberry malt beverage
- 67: Smirnoff Twisted V Mandarin Orange malt beverage
- 68: Smirnoff Twisted V Black Cherry malt beverage
- 69: Smirnoff Twisted V Watermelon malt beverage
- 70: Smirnoff Ice Watermelon malt beverage
- 71: Smirnoff Ice
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Triple Filtered malt beverage, 5.6% (4% in some locations) ABVABV is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* Alcohol by volume, a measure of the alcohol content of alcoholic drinks* Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Nigeria, from its IATA airport code...
.
- 72: Smirnoff Ice, 5% ABV
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. In the United States, it is a malt beverage; elsewhere it is vodka-based. Labeled as “Spin” in South AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
.
- 73: Smirnoff Black Ice, 7% ABV
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. In the United States it is a malt beverage; elsewhere it is vodka-based. Labeled as “Storm” in South AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
.
- 74: Smirnoff Ice Triple Black. A lime-flavored malt beverage sold in the United States, 4.5% alcohol.
- 75: Smirnoff Ice Double Black. Sold in Australia
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. 6.5% ABVABV is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* Alcohol by volume, a measure of the alcohol content of alcoholic drinks* Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Nigeria, from its IATA airport code...
- 76: Smirnoff Ice. Sold in Canada
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. 7% ABVABV is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* Alcohol by volume, a measure of the alcohol content of alcoholic drinks* Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Nigeria, from its IATA airport code...
- 83: Smirnoff Ice Wild Grape malt beverage, 5% ABV
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- 84: Smirnoff Twist Arctic Berry
- 85: Smirnoff Twisted Raspberry. Sold in Canada
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.
- 92: Smirnoff Twisted Green Apple. Canada 7%
- 97: Smirnoff Ice Triple Filtered. Sold in Germany
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. 3% ABVABV is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* Alcohol by volume, a measure of the alcohol content of alcoholic drinks* Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Nigeria, from its IATA airport code...
- 103: Smirnoff Twisted V Arctic Berry
- 110: Smirnoff Ice Double Black & Cola
- 111: Smirnoff Ice Double Black. Sold in Australia
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.
- 120: Smirnoff Ice Spice. Sold in Japan
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.
The basic Smirnoff vodka — number 21 — has performed well at
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competitions. It was awarded a double gold medal (the highest award) at the 2009 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.
History
Pyotr Smirnov founded his vodka distillery in Moscow in the 1860s under the trading name of PA Smirnoff, pioneering charcoal filtration in the 1870s, and becoming the first to utilize newspaper ads along with
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contributions to the
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to stifle anti-vodka
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s, capturing two-thirds of the Moscow market by 1886. His brand was reportedly the tsar's favorite. When he died, he was succeeded by his third son Vladimir Smirnov (? - 1939). The company flourished and produced more than 4 million cases of vodka per year.
In 1904 the Tsar nationalized the Russian vodka industry and Vladimir Smirnoff was forced to sell his factory and brand.
During the
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of 1917, the Smirnoff family had to flee. Vladimir Smirnov re-established the factory in 1920 in
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(present day
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). Four years later he moved to Lwów (formerly
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, now
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,
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) and started to sell the vodka under the contemporary
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spelling of the name, "Smirnoff". The new product was a success and by the end of 1930 it was exported to most European countries. An additional distillery was founded in
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in 1925.
In the 1930s Vladimir met Rudolph Kunett, a Russian who had emigrated to America in 1920. The Kunett family had been a supplier of spirits to Smirnoff in Moscow before the Revolution. In 1933 Vladimir sold Kunett the right to begin producing Smirnoff vodka in North America. However, the business in America was not as successful as Kunett had hoped. In 1938 Kunett couldn't afford to pay for the necessary sales licenses, and contacted John Martin, president of
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, who agreed to buy the rights to Smirnoff for the value of the distilling equipment. His board thought he was mad.
Sales were very slow until they changed the product to use whiskey corks instead. In Kentucky sales rocketed as the distributor started marketing Smirnoff as 'white whiskey, no taste, no smell'.
In 1982, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company acquired Heublein Inc. for $1.4 billion dollars.
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sold the division to
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in 1987. Grand Metropolitan merged with
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to form
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in 1997.
Since the 1990s
In 1990, the Berlin Wall came down and Helmut Kohl did a deal with Gorbachev allowing the reunification of Germany provided the Soviet army could remain in East Germany and be paid by West Germany for three years. Suddenly 500,000 Soviet soldiers were paid in hard currency and had almost nothing to do except drink. They then proceeded to spend their currency on Marlboro cigarettes, Levi jeans and Smirnoff vodka. The US-made variety of Smirnoff vodka was especially popular. The London office of Heublein was inundated with orders and the Vice President, Jeremy Collis, set about exploiting this 'gusher' to the fullest extent possible. Huge in-store Smirnoff displays were set up in the Russian army stores and the officers' messes were renamed Smirnoff Clubs. Individual messes started serving in excess of 200 litres a night of Smirnoff. The Soviet forces became the biggest market in Europe for Smirnoff outside the UK. Smirnoff was shipped to Germany at the rate of 20,000 bottles a day. Moskowskaya and Stolichnaya's market share in Germany dropped from 100% to almost nothing.
Seeing the popularity of Smirnoff amongst the Russian troops, Collis set about trying to sell Smirnoff vodka directly into the USSR. The entire vodka market in the Western world at that stage was 60 million cases (Source: M. Shanken Publications: 'Impact' 1991) but the USSR market was believed to be over 200 million cases (Source: 'Impact'1991).
During the 1990s one of Piotr Smirnov's descendants started producing Smirnov (Смирновъ in Ukraine) vodka in Russia, claiming to be "The Only Real Smirnov". After a number of lawsuits, Smirnoff successfully reclaimed its trademark, while in 2006
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concluded a joint venture deal with the Smirnov company.
The Smirnoff company had the naming rights to the
Smirnoff Music CentreGexa Energy Pavilion is an outdoor performing arts center in Dallas, Texas . The stage/production area and covered pavilion seat 7,533 persons while a sloping lawn accommodates another 12,578...
, a concert amphitheater in
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from 2000-2008. They also sponsored the Smirnoff Underbelly, a major venue at the
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.
In the late 1990s, Smirnoff introduced a series of new products onto the
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and later the
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an and
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n market, which quickly became popular among young people, especially within the
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(See "
Alcopops").
There are two different products by the name of
Smirnoff Ice. One, sold in France and the United States, is a citrus-flavored
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(5.5%
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) with variants in 'Original,' and 'Triple Black.' The other, sold in Europe (excluding France), Latin America, Australia and Canada, is a premixed vodka drink. It also has variants in 'Original' and 'Black Ice' (or in some markets, 'Triple Black' or 'Double Black'), ranging from 4.5% in the
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, to 7%
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in different markets.
The Smirnoff Ice marketed in the USA does not actually contain vodka according to the official Smirnoff website. It is more similar to beer than to vodka, primarily because it is brewed. However outside of the USA and countries who receive US manufactured vodka it does contain Smirnoff Vodka No. 21.
Smirnoff Ice Twisted was a spin-off of the American Smirnoff Ice that featured flavors such as Mandarin Orange and Green Apple. The confusion in branding between Smirnoff Twist Vodka and Smirnoff Twisted Malt Beverage resulted in the decision to drop the "Twisted" from the flavored line of Smirnoff Ice. Current Smirnoff Ice flavors include Watermelon, Wild Grape, Passionfruit, Mango, Triple Black, Pomegranate Fusion, Arctic Berry (Blueberry), Green Apple Bite, Strawberry Acai, Pineapple and Raspberry Burst. It is sold in 22 oz. [650 ml] bottles and six-packs of 12 oz. [355 ml] bottles.
The next line of Smirnoff's malt beverages to be produced was "Raw Teas", similar to the brand
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. It comes in flavors such as Lemon, Peach, Raspberry and Green Tea. This product line has been marketed most notably with the "Tea Partay" music video and website. It is sold in six-packs of 12 oz. [355 ml] bottles.
Smirnoff Source, a lightly carbonated beer-alternative, was released in May 2007. It is citrus-flavored and made with alcohol (3.5% ABV) and spring water and is sold in 4-packs of 1-quart [947 ml] bottles.
A line of 20
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with the "Twist" moniker appended on the end of the name have also been introduced. Flavors include Green Apple, Orange, Cranberry, Raspberry, Citrus (Lemon), Vanilla, Strawberry, Black Cherry, Watermelon, Lime, Blueberry, White Grape, Melon (Honeydew/Cantaloupe), Pomegranate, Passion Fruit, Pear, Peach, Pineapple, Mango and most recently Coconut.
Smirnoff trialed in the UK and Canada during 2004 a new blend of vodka entitled Smirnoff Penka. Marketing and distribution was handled by The Reserve Brands of Diageo plc. Penka continues to be available in the UK.
In a 2005
New York Times blind tasting of 21 world-class vodkas, Smirnoff won as the "hands-down favorite".
The newest addition to the Smirnoff family is the Cocktail Range, which was introduced in 2010. Pomegranate Martini with Meyer Lemon flavoured Liquor and pomegranate juice, Mojito with a dash of mint and kafir lime and Grand Cosmopilitan wth cranberry juice.
Smirnov vodka
Smirnov can be seen as the
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n version of Smirnoff vodka. It is made by the Smirnov Trading House, a company that is part of a joint venture by Russia’s
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and
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, the owner of the Smirnoff brand. The full title of the Smirnov Trading House is
The Trading House of the Heirs of P.A. Smirnov.
Smirnov vodka was launched in 1991 by Boris Smirnov, a scion of Pyotr Smirnov, the original producer of the spirit. After many lawsuits, which resulted in Diageo’s brand being banned in the
Commonwealth of Independent StatesThe Commonwealth of Independent States is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union....
, the Russian brand became a “sister product” of Smirnoff vodka.
See also
- Flavored vodka
- Icing (drinking game)
Icing is a drinking game in which certain individuals or groups of individuals are required to drink a bottle of Smirnoff Ice or any type of Smirnoff Malt Beverage...
- Malt beverage
Malt beverage is an American term for both alcohol containing and non-alcoholic fermented beverages, in which the primary ingredient is the grain, or seed of the barley plant, which has been allowed to sprout in a traditional way called slightly before it is processed...
- "Sea", a Smirnoff advertising campaign
- Vodka war
Vodka war refers to heated discussions within the European Union about the definition of which hard liquors may or may not be branded as "vodka"...
in the European Union
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