Not every ingredient you keep in your bar is designed to be a beautiful, sippable tipple. In fact, some ingredients I’ll suggest you add to your bar are things I’d never recommend you pour in anything other than a cocktail. Despite that, some of these items are wonderful when you trying to bring out a really specific flavor in a drink. Take for example, the oddly brilliant 360 Double Chocolate Vodka.
360 Double Chocolate Vodka
Sight: Clear.
Smell: The double chocolate moniker comes alive here, starting with powder milk chocolate and moving toward tootsie roll. There is a subtle underlying whiff of alcohol.
Sip: Thanks to sugar, the body starts off smooth and rich. Gradually, the notes of alcohol creep in off the edges and add a heat that’s not quite overwhelming, but certainly unwelcome. The chocolate flavor maintains though, landing somewhere in the milk chocolate region.
Savor: The ending adds a little bit of bittersweet chocolate to the tootsie roll like characteristics that go throughout.
360 Double Chocolate Vodka is obviously never meant to be consumed out of a tasting glass. It’s hot, it’s kind of one note, and it’s got a couple of odd alcohol induced flavors going on. Despite this, it’s one of our favorite chocolate vodkas because it’s really chocolatey. More than just giving a chocolate flavor, it manages to give a milk chocolate flavor that can be tough to obtain from liqueurs. For these reasons, it’s one of our favorite flavored chocolate vodkas to work with.
In Cocktails
Something about this vodka just sits perfectly in the uncanny valley of too terrible to drink on its own, and please put a bunch of that in a drink. In cocktails all of the sharp edges vanish and it becomes charmingly forward in it’s chocolate flavors. In our Chocolate Martinis it’s absolutely brilliant, adding just the right amount of chocolate. Meanwhile it provides a very natural chocolate flavor for our Chocolate Covered Strawberry cocktail without overwhelming the strawberry. Perhaps the only issue is the need to adjust sweetness, but this is a minor gripe.
360 Double Chocolate Vodka Overall
The ludicrously low price of only $12 a 750ml makes this an easy recommendation for any fans of chocolate liquor. If you’re concerned about the environment, they’ll also take back the swing cap by sending you a prepaid envelop. Overall, there’s just a lot to like about 360 Double Chocolate Vodka for not a lot of cash.