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Martini Alert - Inventor's O2 SPARKLING VODKA Comes to U.S. from England

No Need to Drink your Cocktails Flat Anymore

LONDON, May 13 ~ PRNewswire -- As the head bartender at the famed New York restaurant One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Mike Lombardozzi knows a thing or two about martinis. But even he was surprised when he replaced the premium vodka in his specially created Pomegranate martini with O2 Sparkling Vodka, the first of its kind.

"Everyone says that it is the best martini they have ever had," says Lombardozzi, who has christened the drink the CosmO2.

O2 is the creation of Philip Maitland, a British entrepreneur and inventor, who spent two years researching and developing a process to create a sparkling spirit.

"Many thought it would be impossible," says Maitland, "but I persevered and was awarded a patent in 2003."

O2 is made from a blend of wheat, malted barley and charcoal-filtered English spring water. It is batch-distilled in 100-year-old copper pot stills and infused with tiny bubbles. Available in Premium 80 proof, three times distilled, and Super Premium 945, 94 proof and five times distilled, in crystal glass bottles with twist caps.

"Drinking other vodkas is like drinking a flat soda. The taste is heavy and dull while O2 electrifies cocktails adding a new dimension of taste, texture and flavor," Maitland says.

The same excitement even extends to drinking O2 with food. O2 offers on its Web site recipes for Tapastinis -- a combination of a drink and a tasty snack -- that solves the tricky problem at cocktail parties of how to balance a plate of food and hold a drink at the same time.

For the Sushitini, all you need is a martini glass filled with chilled O2. Add a cocktail stick with fresh pieces of fish, alternating with pieces of ginger. Then garnish with a lemon twist. Different? Yes. Does it work? Most definitely.

"Not only can you eat and drink without effort, but also experience how the vodka actually enhances the food flavors," Maitland says. O2 is currently rolling out across the U.S. and is available at restaurants and nightclubs as well as wine and spirit retailers.

Imported by Admiral Imports, Cedar Grove, NJ, http://www.admiralimports.com/.

Source: International English Distillers Ltd.
CONTACT: Anise Walton of International English Distillers Ltd., London,
Web site: http://www.sparklingvodka.com