Founder Dave moved to Moscow a few months after completing his degree in Russian Studies. He’ll tell you it was because he took too many pucks to the head as the starting goalie for the University of Rochester’s ice hockey team. We still don’t know what he was thinking, but he left Russia five years later with a passion for flavorful vodka and how this fine spirit brought people together.
He spent the next few years, from 2000-2002, visiting more than forty distilleries around Russia, first looking to import an existing brand, and later creating his own brand and recipe. He put the knowledge he learned from so many along the way into Zyr vodka. He fermented and distilled different blends of wheat, rye, corn, oat, barley, beets and more to perfect the fresh and slightly sweet flavor of Zyr, and the process to ensure an ultra smooth texture. The goal then was the same today, to make the finest vodka in flavor, texture and purity without cutting a corner.
Since 2002, we’ve been welcoming spirits lovers to our passion, Zyr vodka. Zyr has always been an ultra smooth and clean vodka with a creamy texture. Zyr has always had flavor, a slight sweetness and pleasant citrus notes.
Zyr achieves this quality by fermenting and distilling a custom blend of organic soft red winter wheat and rye grains, softening the purest water and adding nothing.