Tastes
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If we are grading on a price curve this is an A+. It’s like $6 for fucks sake. It’s a step below Evan Williams black and it jockeys for position, fighting for the same girls as Ancient Age. It is the generic black labeled bottle a cartoon hillbilly drunk has strewn across his living space and frequently smashes on the floor. It’s fine for what it is and is less memorable than this terrible review.
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Don Julio Añejo Tequila
Tequila Añejo — Los Altos, Jalisco, Mexico
Reviewed March 4, 2021 (edited April 30, 2021)"I wanted to love this. I dont. The nose is excellent. All warm vanilla. The finish falls flat. Somehow not as good as the blanco. There’s a strange earthy citrus in there I can’t explain and feel is off putting. I’m sure I’ll get death threats for this and that’s why I love the 2nd Amendment. I love it much more than this offering. -
Broken Barrel Whiskey Single Oak Series: Cask of Amontillado
Other Whiskey — USA
Reviewed March 4, 2021 (edited September 11, 2021)What this company does is blasphemy. It’s heresy. It’s also damn good. What I love is the absolute transparency. Turns out what I also love is this variant. It’s excellent. Like delicious sherry candy corn bomb excellent. If you’re lucky enough to find one of these inexpensive rarities, give it a try and read the label. You’ll be outraged and yet you’ll enjoy the juice. I love conflict. -
Don Julio 70 Añejo Claro Tequila
Tequila Añejo — Los Altos, Jalisco, Mexico
Reviewed February 27, 2021"To my surprise this is my favorite Don Julio expression so far. The nose is indistinguishable from the anejo, no surprise there, but after filtration, along with the color it took the bitterness with it, making this a smoooth elegant supper. Love. Much love. Much much love. -
George Dickel TABASCO Brand Barrel Finish
Flavored Whiskey — Tennessee, USA
Reviewed February 27, 2021I’m going to try and be positive here. I like the concept. I like the courage to attempt this. I don’t hate it as much as I thought I would. I respect George Dickel and Tabasco individually as masters in their field. It’s inexpensive. It can be rendered palatable in cocktails. I’m leaving before this gets ugly. -
Evan Williams White Label Bottled in Bond Bourbon
Bourbon — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed February 25, 2021 (edited September 3, 2021)Dude I’m aware of the benefits of allowing certain beverages to “open up”. I’m aware that oxygens invisible sorcerous touch can drastically affect your booze, brah. So I know this isn’t some eureka moment. BUT I will say, after experiencing what I’m about to describe with no less than 3 bottles, I think it’s a large enough sample size to say that you won’t fully experience what this juice this has to offer until you are halfway done with the bottle. The first half is fine...the usual suspects (caramel corn, toffee, buttercream, cinnamon, gingerbread, etc.) and the added proof alone pretty much rules out purchasing the “1783 small batch” or whatever they call it now and the black label completely if this is also available. It’s the mere difference of declining the “would you like to donate your change to charity” once or twice. Not that I’d ever do that....at this hour, is the end of that sentence, because all the stores are closed right now, it’s like 3 am. Did you think I was some delusional illiterate CNN-educated social activist, super woke, super judgy and super down with the hivemind? Blech. I’m not. I refuse to donate practically every time. I mean seriously, most charities are fraudulent fronts for the Deep State anyway and who’s to say where the money actually goes? No no no I save up my coins and pocket them so that my forgetfulness and neglect can enable the poly-rhythmic musical percussion act known as my clothes dryer to do it’s thing, rattling and tapping and rocking out hopefully in the dead of night. I sometimes set up a condenser microphone before the cycle and run wires to an amp in the bushes outside so my woke ass neighbors can hear the concert for free from the comforts of their REM sleep next to their angry and obviously uncultured wives. I’m good like that. But yeah for a mere pittance you can have this bad boy and the thing is, if you thought the top half was pleasant, the bottom half will blow your mind. That’s what I say to anyone who happens to engage me with my shirt off too. But in this case, the finish, the aroma, the whole Evan Williams bottled in bond experience gets compounded like the interest the banks hate you to have, and honestly, it’s a whole different animal. Don’t review this or critique this or even pay attention to this until you’re halfway done And it’s here at this juncture you can reflect and appreciate it’s true value. So basically treat it like you do your life. -
There is a lot of weirdness surrounding this tequila brand. Weirness like reviews where people are fawning over the brand jerking themselves off in its luxurious radiant waves of awesome flavor of angels...Weirdness like it was founded by the same guy who pushed Vitamin Water and other various snake oils. I’m supposed to believe he donned a serape and picked cotton alongside peasants for 3 years until he saved up enough pesos and started an agave farm and leaped into the tequila game?Doesn’t it take 7-8 years for agave to mature? Oh I’m sorry, I forgot, I’m in America, where one is not allowed to question the narrative lest they be labeled a *gasp* conspiracy theorist! Mother of all insults! Is it though? Well whatever. Here’s one that goes against the narrative and you can call me whatever you want because I actually do not care what a single person thinks of me. This is just ok. It’s fruity and grassy and:...well that’s it. A little bit of wood sugar maybe if I close my eyes tight and pray for it to manifest on my disappointed tongue. It’s not bad, but it’s not great. And I doubt it’s been aged as long as they say. Which they don’t say. So I’m right. In your face! And you know what else? Vitamin water sucks too, there I said it. If you want a mediocre anejo in a perfume bottle, this is your dream come true. If you want to overpay for disappointment this is an option. Personally I recommend you go get a bottle and form your own opinion which is what I did.
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El Tesoro Blanco Tequila
Tequila Blanco — Los Altos, Jalisco, Mexico
Reviewed February 22, 2021 (edited February 5, 2023)Old world style. That’s what they tell me. “They” being a sales rep for a distributor. “What that mean?” was my eloquent response. It means that the distiller uses old equipment and outdated techniques. Whatever. What it means to me me is whatever they use, they use it well. This is not watered down at all, in terms of taste, body and also factually. It’s double distilled to exactly 80 proof. So put that in your fact pocket for later use when wowing the tequila nerd ladies of which there are literally dozens. For you, the tequila nerd drinker, it means more pleasant and present oils in and around the mouthfeel. Earthy, bright, warm but not burny. In fact, unlike the other Bernie, this offering is very fresh and hasn’t sold its soul for a cash grab. Worth every penny. Well, at least worth $38 worth of pennies. In 2021. So by the end of next year it will be worth probably $70 worth of pennies. Not because the cost will increase because of the impending agave shortage due to government subsidizing farmers to switch to corn, but because the Fed continues to devaluate our currency by creating magic money at will. And thusly, ends my horrible inflation joke. This tequila has a much better and lasting finish than this review.
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