Johnnie Walker Red Label

This is essentially a mixing scotch, nothing more, nothing less, but it gets the job done. Perfect for the scotch and soda or highball crowds.

Day 7 in a 12 Days of Christmas Gift Set. If you're following along from home and wonder what happened to Day 6, it was Piehole Pecan Pie whisky, and it ended up down the sink. As for our next contender; Stephanie is far too polite in her assessment. The nose smells of smoke and turpentine, maybe a bit of a rubber or carpet factory. The dried herbs you get on the palate are stale pepper from the greasy spoon 24-hr diner down the road, and just a touch of dried oregano, but stale, like from the bottle in the camping gear that you've never replaced after that one trip in 1989. It should be noted that none of this is to be construed as "in a good way". There's a bit of apple just before the finish, but the finish is so abrupt, so intensely unpleasant with acetone and formaldehyde that the nicest part of this sip is lost. I'd rather have a case of Miller High Life. And all that said, it's STILL better than Alberta Dark Batch...

Bleh.