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Russia’s Maslenitsa Festival in London’s Trafalgar Square

04/03/201106/03/2017 by Charlotte J

This weekend, should one have a rabid appetite for sampling some Russian culture, we at Charlotte’s VVeb recommend taking a trip to the annual Russian Maslenitsa Festival taking place on Sunday 6th March in London’s Trafalgar Square. The annual festival is set to be bigger and better than ever before and will feature a Russian Standard Vodka bar and traditional Russian delicacies to taste.

Maslenitsa is also known as Butter Week and blinis are traditionally eaten during this period. The celebration is held just before Lent, however, its roots are pagan as it heralds the coming of spring. As Russia’s national drink is vodka we can expect that lots of lovely blinis will be washed down with a chilled tipple or two at the festival!

Plus for music lovers there will be fabulous performances by Moral Codex, Bayan Mix, Ludmila Rumina and Anastasia Stostkaya. We can’t wait!

Russian Maslenitsa Festival in London’s Trafalgar Square

Nearest Tube: Charing Cross

12.30pm – 7pm

Entry is free

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RSV’s Fountain of Youth – A New Year, A New You

12/01/201106/03/2017 by Charlotte J

Russian Standard Vodka Fountain of Youth

Forget detoxing this January, it’s a miserable enough month as it is to deny yourself the pleasure of a good cocktail. However, if you are being lured to the dark side, then never fear, a fabulous Fountain of Youth cocktail, created by Russian Standard Vodka, may be the answer to your prayers.

This fresh and fruity cocktail includes delicious pomegranate juice which contains three times more antioxidants than green tea or red wine. Drinking pomegranate juice helps keep blood vessels from hardening, bring more oxygen to the heart and prevents bad cholesterol from being deposited on the arteries.

So how do you make this magic drink I hear you ask! Just follow the steps below…

Ingredients

35ml / 1.7 fl oz Russian Standard
40ml / 2 fl oz Pomegranate juice, fresh squeezed where available
20g / 0.7 oz thinly sliced ginger

Instructions

Shake all ingredients vigorously with ice

Double strain and pour into a martini glass

Garnish with a piece of ginger and pass a mint leaf around the glass rim

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Friday Night Cocktails for National Chocolate Week

15/10/201006/03/2017 by Charlotte J

This week, Britain has been celebrating all things sweet throughout this year’s National Chocolate Week where every self-respecting chocoholic can, and has indulged in every imaginable form of chocolate. Come Friday night why not continue to enjoy chocolate but this time with a real twist, all courtesy of the mixologists at Russian Standard Vodka who have dreamt up this deliciously pleasurable range of chocolate cocktails.

Combining the smooth indulgence of chocolate with a luxurious base of Russian Standard Vodka Original, it’s the perfect way to kick off a week of cocoa based extravagance! You’ll be in chocolate heaven. Check out the recipes below…

Choc-Orange Russian Screwdriver

50ml Russian Standard Vodka Original
100ml freshly squeezed orange juice
25ml crème de cacao
To serve: Slice of orange, a twist of rind & grated chocolate

Shake the Russian Standard Vodka, crème de cacao and fresh orange in a cocktail mixer then pour over ice into a chilled hi-ball glass, add the freshly squeezed orange juice and garnish with a slice of orange and a twist of rind.

Chocolate Russian
50ml Russian Standard
20ml Creme de Cacao
30ml Fresh Cream

Pour Creme de Cacao and Russian Standard over ice and stir gently. Float fresh cream on top.

Russian Standard Vodka Original owes its name and quality to scientist Dmitri Mendeleev’s classic formula, commissioned by Tsar Alexander III. Its optimum balance and purity make it perfect alone or at the heart of a magnificent cocktail.

Step up the celebrations this National Chocolate Week 11th and 17th of October!

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RSV Originals Presents 6 Nights of Free Live Music

04/10/201006/03/2017 by Charlotte J

Russian Standard Vodka has released its winter festival line up for members of the Russian Standard Vodka Originals programme. The festival is to include six exclusive free gigs across London and Edinburgh, featuring Plan B, The Hoosiers, Kelis, White Lies and Paloma Faith.

The festival will kick off with a bang on the 14th November 2010 at the HMV Picture House in Edinburgh and run for three nights featuring Plan B, The Hoosiers and White Lies consecutively. There will then be three consecutive live gigs from Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Kelis, The Hoosiers and Paloma Faith at the HMV Forum in London from the 29th November.

Attending one of these amazing gigs couldn’t be easier. On purchase of a bottle of Russian Standard Vodka, consumers are simply required to visit www.rsvoriginals.co.uk and either register the on-pack privilege card number or if there is no privilege card on-pack, the bottle’s batch code to become a member of the Russian Standard Vodka Originals programme, where they will be offered the amazing opportunity to attend a free gig with a friend by entering the draw.

Those who register will also receive Russian Standard Vodka privilege cards which will provide them with a host of benefits and information on future Russian Standard Vodka Originals events. For those not lucky enough to win a pair of tickets to these gigs, there will be access to other opportunities by revisiting the Russian Standard Vodka Originals website regularly.

Russian Standard Vodka is steeped in Russian heritage; it is based on the vodka formula created by illustrious scientist Dmitri Mendeleev and is produced with premium Russian ingredients which are distilled at Russian Standard Vodka’s state-of-the-art distillery in St Petersburg.