Tastes like it was freshly picked from grandma's garden: Wostok plum cardamom is pleasantly sweet and extremely fruity. For some it's a childhood memory of holidays in the country that has become soda, for others it's simply delicious. Whatever, it's worth trying. With 48% fruit juice and 100% vegan.
Looking back:
In the early 1970s, a new drink was launched in the Soviet Union as a counterpart to the dark brown drink with the red label that was introduced there. They call the drink, based on natural herbs, ‘Baikal’. The soda is becoming popular with the Soviets, but when the Soviet Union brakes up in the 1990s, it goes down considerably with Baikal and after a few years it is barely available.
In 2009, a Dutch photographer who had lived in Moscow for 20 years, decides to give the drink a new life. In his studio in Berlin, the photographer comes up with a new look, taste and name for Baikal. From now on the drink will be called ‘Wostok’, being the Russian word for East, where the roots of soft drinks are. Wostok was also the name of the space program of the Soviet Union. Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in the Wostok-1.
The first taste they develop at Wostok is the ‘Wostok Brause Tannenwald’. Just like the original Baikal, based on oil from needles of pine trees, where a bit of cardamom was added to give it a spicy touch.
Nutritional value per 100 ml:
Energy value 31kcal / 132kJ
Fat 0 g
of which saturated fatty acids 0 g
Carbohydrates 7.3 g
of which sugars 6.8 g
Protein 0 g
Salt 0 g
Ingredients:
Natural mineral water, apple juice concentrate* (41%), agave syrup*, carbon dioxide, lemon juice concentrate* (4%), plum juice concentrate* (2%), black carrot juice concentrate* (1%), natural flavors, natural cardamom extract.
*from controlled organic farming
330 ml
