The Playboy Advisor
January, 2005
I recently saw a vodka made from grapes. I thought all vodkas were distilled from grain or potatoes. What makes vodka vodka?--K.B., Leavenworth, KansasVodka is defined more by what it isn't than by what it is. Other alcohols are classified according to the ingredients used to make them and sometimes the place they were made. You need fruit to make brandy, sugarcane to make rum, barley to make scotch, corn to make bourbon and blue agave to make tequila. Scotch is from Scotland, bourbon from Kentu...