Grey Goose
Type	Premium Vodka
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Proof	80
Manufacturer	Bacardi
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Country of Origin	France
Introduced	1997 in USA
Discontinued
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Variants	L'Orange, La Vanille, Le Citron
Related products	Belvedere, Van Gogh, Chopin

Grey Goose is a luxury brand of vodka. It is distilled in Cognac, France from French wheat, then imported by the Sidney Frank Importing Company in New Rochelle, New York. In 1997, it quickly gained a reputation for quality and has won several prestigious awards in distilled spirit competitions. In 2004, Sidney Frank sold the manufacturing rights to Bacardi for $2.2 billion. The first French vodka, Grey Goose has some competitors as the French vodkas Nuage, Idol, and Ciroc are all now on the market. Considered as premium brands, these vodkas are sold at high prices, mostly in North America. Download high resolution version (250x829, 17 KB)Grey Goose Vodka 750 mL bottle File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (250x931, 21 KB)Grey Goose LOrange Vodka 750 mL bottle File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Look up Vodka in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Bacardi logo The Cathedral Of Rum at the Distillery in Puerto Rico near San Juan. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Belvedere is a premium vodka from Poland. ... Chopin vodka is a single-ingredient vodka, 4 times distilled from organic Polish region of Podlasie. ... In economics a luxury good is a good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises, contrast with inferior good and normal good. ... Look up Vodka in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the city in France. ... Species T. boeoticum T. compactum T. dicoccoides T. dicoccon T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta T. sphaerococcum References:   ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 Wheat (Triticum spp. ... Sidney E. Frank (October 2, 1919 - January 10, 2006) was an American businessman who became a billionaire through his savvy promotion of Grey Goose vodka and Jägermeister. ... New Rochelle City Hall New Roc City New Rochelle is a city in Westchester County in the US state of New York, 16 miles (26 km) from Grand Central Terminal in New York City. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Bacardi logo The Cathedral Of Rum at the Distillery in Puerto Rico near San Juan. ... Ciroc vodka (or more properly Cîroc vodka) is a brand of vodka manufactured in France. ...

Flavors

Besides the original Grey Goose, it comes in several flavored versions as well.

• Original (pictured)
• L'Orange (pictured)
• La Vanille
• Le Citron

Grey Goose's La Vanille has met only limited success in the United States market.

Corks

Grey Goose vodka is bottled with a replaceable cork rather than a screw-top cap like less expensive vodkas. This is modelled after exquisite Polish vodkas, namely Chopin, Belvedere, and Evolution, as well as some Polish nalewkas. Grey Goose Corks for 750 mL bottles File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Grey Goose Corks for 750 mL bottles File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A cork stopper for a wine bottle Champagne corks Varnished cork tiles can be used for flooring, as a substitute for linoleum or tiles. ... Chopin vodka is a single-ingredient vodka, 4 times distilled from organic Polish region of Podlasie. ... Belvedere is a premium vodka from Poland. ...

Production and History

Unlike other vodkas with a long history, Grey Goose was tailor-made for the US market in 1997 as a brainchild of Sidney Frank, a self-made billionaire. His concept was to create a super premium vodka for his fellow Americans. He took the idea from the notion of French manufacturing having an inherent link with high perceived quality, quickly dispatching a team to Europe. As a result, Grey Goose was born.

Grey Goose uses French winter wheat from the south of Paris, distilled in a continuous still and alpine spring water that has been filtered through the limestone plateaux of the Massif Centrale. The distillation takes place in the Cognac region of France, an area already associated with quality liquors/liqueurs.

Grey Goose has recently been sold in the largest ever single brand sale for $2 billion, in cash, to Bacardi, making Frank an estimated profit of $1.6 billion. Incidentally, Frank was behind the success of Jaegermeister before launching Grey Goose, and his current projects include "Crunk" energy drink, a joint venture with hip-hop entrepreneur Lil' Jon, and a premium tequila named Corazon. A bottle of Jägermeister Jägermeister (German for hunter master) is a strong 70-proof (35%) liqueur flavored with herbs (similar to Danish so-called stomach bitters such as Gammel Dansk). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Lil Jon This article is about the American rap producer. ...

The current Global Brand Ambassador for Grey Goose Vodkas is Dimitri Lezinska from Paris.

External links

• Grey Goose website
• Consumer Perspective
• The Cocktail Creationist New York magazine, January 10, 2005.