The governor of West Virginia ordered the state's Alcohol Beverage Control Administration to stop buying and selling Russian liquor and asked retailers to stop selling Russian liquor.
There are bottles of Russian Standard vodka.
Russian-produced brands were banned, but non-Russian-produced brands that use Russian brand names were not.
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board instructed Fine Wine and Good Spirits to stop buying and selling Russian products.
Russian Standard, the only Russian-owned distillery that distributes vodka in Ohio, has been ordered by the governor to stop selling it.
Utah will not support Russian enterprises, no matter how you slice it, according to an executive order issued by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Saturday.
The governor of New Hampshire ordered the removal of all Russian-produced and Russian- branded spirits from shelves.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked all Texas retailers to remove Russian products from their shelves.
According to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS), there will be 78.1 million 9-liter cases sold in 2021, up from 62.7 million in 2011. Russian imports have fallen by almost 80% in that period and now make up a small portion of the US market. Russian vodka accounted for just $18.6 million of the $660 million imported from France, $291 million from the Netherlands, $177 million from Sweden and $137 from Latvia. Cox compared the removal of Russian vodka from Utah shelves to the raising of the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima.
Russian Standard is one of the leading Russian brands in the U.S., but its sales aredwarfed by other brands. In the U.S., Russian Standard sold 237,000 9-liter cases, compared to Smirnoff's 8.9 million cases.
703 million dollars. Enough to make 23 billion martinis, that's how many liters of vodka were sold in the U.S. in 2021.
A bar at Vermont's Magic Mountain Ski Area does not serve Russian products. In the US, the Stolichnaya vodka is widely available. One of the companies that owns the Stolichnaya brand is in Russia and the other is in Luxembourg, which supplies the vodka that is widely available in the United States. Smirnoff is a high-profile brand that traces its origins to Russia, but it is not based in Russia and is produced in Illinois.
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