Red Label
⏳ Drinking Window
As a highly distilled spirit, it does not mature or improve with bottle age. It is ready to be enjoyed immediately upon release and will remain stable indefinitely when stored properly.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Smoked salmon or caviar, pickled herring and traditional zakuski, or salty cured meats.
✨ Technical Specifications
Smirnoff Red Label (historically known as Recipe No. 21) is not a traditional grape wine, but rather one of the world's most famous distilled spirits, categorized here under 'Other'. Its origins trace back to Moscow in the 1860s, where Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov established his distillery. Smirnov pioneered charcoal filtration in the 1870s, becoming the first to utilize this method to create an exceptionally smooth, neutral spirit. Following the Russian Revolution, the family fled the country, eventually re-establishing the brand in the West under the French spelling 'Smirnoff'. Today, this iconic spirit is produced via a triple-distillation process of grain and is filtered ten times through charcoal, resulting in its signature clean, crisp, and ultra-smooth profile.
🍾 About the Producer
Tracing its origins to 1864 in Moscow, Smirnoff was founded by Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov, who pioneered the use of charcoal filtration to achieve unprecedented purity in vodka. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, his son Vladimir Smirnov fled Russia and revived the brand across Europe before establishing production in North America in the 1930s. Today, as one of the world's best-selling spirit brands owned by Diageo, Smirnoff maintains its heritage of quality through triple-distillation and a rigorous ten-stage charcoal filtration process. The brand is celebrated globally for its smooth, versatile flagship Smirnoff No. 21 (Red Label), the higher-proof Blue Label, and the traditional pot-still distilled Black Label.