This makes me wonder if Ian Fleming was actually telling the truth when he mentioned that James Bond had picked up the habit of putting pepper on his vodka from Russian friends who would do so to absorb the foul-tasting fusel oil that floated on cheap nasty vodka. Okay, not the literal truth, as this is a fictional character, but the bit about fusel oil being a key component of vodka foulness, and also if the pepper trick would work.
Of course, I was under the impression that vodka is so stringently regulated in this country that all (legal) vodka tastes about the same here.
Vodka taste
that James Bond had picked up the habit of putting pepper on his vodka from Russian
friends who would do so to absorb the foul-tasting fusel oil that floated on cheap
nasty vodka. Okay, not the literal truth, as this is a fictional character, but the bit
about fusel oil being a key component of vodka foulness, and also if the pepper
trick would work.
Of course, I was under the impression that vodka is so stringently regulated in this
country that all (legal) vodka tastes about the same here.