Imperia vodka

The recipe for Imperia Brand of vodka(owned by Russian Standard co) is said to have been discovered by 19th century Russian scientist Dimtri Mendeleev, inventor of chemistry's periodic table of elements

Imperia uses winter wheat from the black soil of the Russian Steppes,distilled eight times and blended with the glacial waters from Lake Lagoda. The liquid is then filtered twice through charcoal and twice again through quartz crystals from the Ural Mountains.Czar Alexander III in 1894 declared the formula as "The Standard of Vodka.