Khortytsia or Khortytsa is a Ukrainian vodka produced at the Khortytsa Distillery in Zaporizhzhia and owned by the Kyiv-based alcohol holding Global Spirits.[1] .[2] Khortytsia markets vodka in the United States under the brand name Khor.[3]
The label is named after Khortytsia Island on the Dnipro River, a national landmark often referred to as “the heart of Ukraine.”[4]
History
Entrepreneur Yevhen Chernyak founded a distribution company in 1998 and began building a new high-tech distillery in 2002; the first Khortytsia bottles rolled off the line in December 2003, exactly one year after construction began.[4]