Tasting Notes: Long considered one of the world's most premium vodkas, Stoli Elit is quartz sand filtered, freeze filtered, and birch wood charcoal filtered before being proofed down with 200m well water. What's the point of all this? It's as pure and clean of a spirit as you can get. The flavor, though legally 'nothing,' presents as soft and smooth, with a silkiness and depth not often found in grain based vodkas.