Tastes
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Its pleasantly sweet and I get the impression that the neutral spirit was obtained and existed on its own for some time before being infused with herbs. This neutral spirit wasnt made with gin being its end game, it just ended up being used that way. Either way I assume this is going to be used for cocktails with a hundred ingredients so in that case who cares. If you are drinking it neat and are mad and underwhelmed, you will then remember what little you paid for it and shrug and be happy again.8.0 USD per Bottle
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How this doesnt have an official page defies all common sense. This brand is almost the standard Sweet Vermouth served anywhere in USA. Not that its great. Its ok. It has no finish or depth but it fills in for sweet vermouth wherever called for and its like $5 a bottle. So just to be passable and $5 is a win because usually $5 gets you trash masquerading as a libation. So in that regard its solid standard fare. Distiller, get it together and get some official reviews for some cordials. And dont look to me for that. I doubt somehow I meet your criteria.
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If this is a "return to its roots" then this is a shitty tree. I dont understand why Sazerac would claim the base ingredient of this is whiskey. It cant be. I think I know what the ACTUAL base ingredient is. Its candy. Yep. Generic candy. Thats all youre going to taste. You could add this to anything in place of Splenda or Sweet 'N Lo and you wont miss a beat. Please take the word "whiskey" off the label. Seriously.
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Hmm....not boring. Smooth enough to drink neat. Hot enough to not make you feel like a third grader. Distinct pleasant flavor of printer paper. Or ink. Whatever it is that you taste when you put printer paper in your mouth after it’s been printed on. Not the thermal kind. The regular kind. Not receipt paper either. Just good starchy printer paper. I’m surprised I like printer paper so much. I dont even remember ever eating printer paper but apparently I did and I liked it.
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*see Cruzan banana if you insist on having my worthless opinion for this is the same story here and I’m not typing all that again. I have less important things with which to distract my attention. Like these old Alchemy books from the 1600’s written in Latin I’m trying to read. So yeah as with banana so goes the guava with the notable exception that this at least smells like actual fruit. It’s not rum though. It’s liquid candy.
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I didn’t know you could gather up old stale banana runtz candies and mash them together with simple syrup and add water and call it rum. Seriously I didn’t know you could do that. But you can. These guys did it. I don’t know why the bottle even says banana. This isn’t banana. This is what people who don’t like bananas think bananas taste like. The only thing you could possibly do with this is add the entire bottle to a massive rum punch with several other juices and liquors and then yeah I guess it has a purpose. So whenever you’re trying to get your old aunts or your teenage daughter and her friends drunk this is an option. But really even then this should be for emergencies only and I dont know how or why either of those two exact situations could be considered emergencies but whatever man, it’s your family.
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Glenfiddich 14 Year Bourbon Barrel Reserve
Single Malt — Speyside, Scotland
Reviewed June 18, 2021 (edited June 23, 2021)This is a very solid offering. Its not exactly the type of spirit that will excite my mind, occupy my spirits, and enrage my body, provoking me to kick any man or woman in the back of the head regardless of what he or she has or has not done unto me. Itsa not quite complex enough for that. But it is balanced with a warm mouthfeel and enough bourbon barrel on the front and plenty of that dry musty grandpa scotch flavor lingering on the back end. Its sort of like a mullet that is equally long on both front and back but nothing on the sides. Like maybe the sides are shaved. I dont know what Im talking about anymore but thats a funny visual. Its like those old detective hats with two visors or brims, one on either side, except instead of a visor theres a flap of mullet hair. You see it dont you? Ahaha that makes me very content, happy even. Just like this whiskey. <-------Nailed the dismount yusssssss -
How the F is this rated so high? I understand the common layman falling for its super sweet sickly viscous fraudulent nastiness but not the “official review”. This is aged 6 years at most and filled with sugar and additives and sugar and flavorings and sugar and sugar and more sugar. Anything with this much sugar would taste good....ANYTHING. Bring me a turd I’ll prove it. And that’s what this is...a turd. A turd packed with headache-inducing amounts of sugar and sold for 50 dollars. This is why rum will never achieve the heights of other spirits. Because shite like this is passed off as rum with a 92 rating. Shame on you “official” reviewer. No doubt your cupboards are packed with Diageo products you received s a bribe for lying to your Distiller community.
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High West Rendezvous Rye
Rye — (bottled in) Utah, USA
Reviewed June 16, 2021 (edited January 15, 2022)This is excellent. Most balanced and enjoyable rye Ive come across. It used to be a go to until High West inexplicably made this an allocated seasonal only and doubled the price. Seems like a blatant cash grab and again I find myself disappointed in High West for shifting from a bold independent trail blazer to yet another generic lazy self righteous grifter. When this bottles gone I doubt I will ever buy another so I extend to you a toast: cheers to the reminder of the glory of our past, the painful death of our present and the ashes of our future.
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