[via MetaFilter] A simple way
to make wine taste better is to decant it — to pour it from the bottle
into another container. Decanting wine mixes it with oxygen, which
improves the taste; you can make a $10 bottle wine like a $20 one with
this simple trick.
There are similar tricks with liquor. In an old James Bond novel — I
can’t remember which one — Bond had the habit of shaking pepper into
his vodka shots. He’d picked it up from the Russians, who did it as a
matter of safety rather thasn taste; the pepper dragged fusel oils left
over from their crude distilling process down to the bottom of the
glass.
A more useful trick that you can try at home: filtering cheap vodka through a Brita filter four times. Apparently it makes it as smooth and delicious as the expensive stuff.
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Doesn't pepper float?
I think it would. I'm merely repeating what Ian Fleming wrote.
I did a little Googling (and admit it's something I should've done in the first place) but I found that the pepper trick is from Moonraker. It's summarized on Moonraker page in the Make Mine a 007 site as follows:
Maybe there's where they got the idea of that Pepper vodka from Absolut. Now it's just the taste we have with that variety, but back then it was used for the cheap vodka.