Laws Secale Straight Rye Whiskey

Nose - Very sharp sweet red berry/ethanol cleaning product note, alcoholic mint-berry windex, vanilla buttercream frosting after a while. Taste - Very splenda-sweet medicinal mint berry cough drops, vanilla simple with orange zest, light cocoa nib bittersweet, drying tannic heat. Finish - Lingering cocoa nib/orange bittersweet, very splenda-like artificial sweet, diabetes sweet spearmint. Score - 10/100 Final Thoughts - At least to me, there is nothing about this whiskey that is pleasant. It smelled like a cleaning product targeted towards kids, tasted like one, and left a very unpleasant splenda/equal sweet taste. Maybe secale rye isn't for me? Regardless I couldn't find anything I liked about this one and I went back & forth on how low a score I could reasonably give this one as it will probably be my benchmark for bad whiskey. I settled on 10/100 because they bothered to make something & actually bottle it for sale. I think if I actually purchased a bottle of this, I'd probably go back & demand my money back it was so bad. If I could give this 0 stars, I would.

Hints of mint and basil. One of the best straight rye's I've ever had. Colorado proud. Also, batch 5 is the best. Don't @ me.