Absolut Raspberri

This is also very pleasant. Easy to sip neat, and lovely mixed with lemonade.

Not bad, smooth but kinda sweetish need to be in the mood for raspberries, it’s good in cocktails

Nose: Artificial berry aromas, both in a good and bad way (see below). Palate: Sweet, strongly artificial berry flavour. Benedryl cough mixture. The texture should be creamy but the flavour is so harsh it combats the texture. There is a sour, mineral-like note. Finish: Short, but not short enough. The artificial berry flavour lingers. This is the last of the 4 tasting samples in the Absolut pack I bought recently, and I intentionally saved what I thought would be either the best or the worst for last. It is the worst. There is a moment, one pure golden moment, when you first nose this that you think – “oh, this is nice, it smells just like fresh berries”. That lasts about 2 seconds. Then your senses are overcome by the irresistible impression that what you are really smelling is berry-flavoured soft drink. This sort of unbalances you, but only for a moment, and you adjust and think “OK, that’s not quite what I thought at first, but it’s alright”. Then the bomb drops. Suddenly, as if it is smashing through a brick wall, you get an overpowering waft of berry-flavoured cough syrup, and the dream is shattered. Then you taste it, and all your worst fears are realized. Artificial berry flavour by the container-load and nothing else. The slide from positive to negative on this profile is vertiginous. It’s a very poor flavoured vodka, and there is no way I’d recommend this. The Absolut Lime and Citron are good spirits and I would consider buying either as a gin alternative to have with tonic. The Vanilla vodka is a bit strange, but fun and palatable. This is just ... not nice. Its only saving grace is that the underlying spirit is of excellent quality. Tasted from a 50ml retail sample. “Poor” : 60/100 (1 star)