Taste, price, and availability considered, Stolichnaya is one of the best everyday vodkas available — a gentle sipper and a wonderful cocktail base all in one. The red label is the flagship, or the foundation, of the brand as a whole and is available almost anywhere. This Russian vodka is distilled four times from wheat and rye, mixed with artesian water from the Kaliningrad region and filtered through quartz, sand, activated charcoal and woven cloth before bottling at 80 proof.