DrRHCMadden
Hochstadter's Slow & Low Rock & Rye (84 Proof)
Rye — (BOTTLED IN) Scobeyville, New Jersey, USA
Reviewed
October 7, 2022 (edited October 10, 2022)
Quoting from the bottle:
“The drink itself is mellow with slightly sweet flavours exceptionally balanced with citrus, grapefruit and rock candy notes. A smooth, long finish follows, reminiscing of honey, orange and rye whiskey character”
What. A. Crock. Of. Shite.
My honest notes:
N: Orange. Orangey. Orange.
P: Orange. Sticky sweet oranges. Orange. Did I mention orange?
F: Short. Sticky sweet honied orange.
All orange. Lots of honey sticky sweetness. Do not be fooled to thinking there is any notion that this is rye or has rye flavours in it. No spice, no grain, no barrel. Just orange crap. I guess the only redeeming factor is that they get the orange across well.
I have no idea how to objectively score this as a whisky. But I wouldn’t buy it, I couldn’t finish drinking what I was poured either. That’s never happened before, so that can’t be good and so neither can the number of stars I give it (or lack there of). Point for orange.
Distiller whisky taste #79
68.99
AUD
per
Bottle
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@cascode that’s a good kind of hectic though I hope! Nice one, hopefully you’ll find my offerings interesting- promise you no orange crap.
@DrRHCMadden Ha! You read my mind - I got some out last night and just need to give them a clean and put them in the post. I think I can get 24 into a standard mailing box, and some will be filled with whisky 😁. Things are getting back to normal for us but will soon get hectic again as we are off to Europe in 6 weeks.
@cascode so. I understand why this exists. I don’t approve of its existence, but I understand it. Fireball. That I refuse to even acknowledge with a review on here. It is truly an abomination with no point or value. *** In other news, how you going Sir? Things on the up? I have four or five bottles of things you’ve not had (I think) that I’m keen to send you. The HP25 is low, be good to send you some before it ages too much in the open bottle. So, if you will get a chance to get to the post let me know. Otherwise I’ll go get some sample bottles myself to send you.
@pkingmartin 😂👍 I didn’t hate this quite as much but I’d never buy a bottle either. Fits in the same category as Fireball.
@DrRHCMadden Ha, good call! I’ll just Richard Paterson it by walking up to it, filling a glass full followed by throwing it on the ground and then walk away.
@pkingmartin oh don’t avoid it. Approach it eagerly, and pour it down a drain.
Ha, sounds like an orange push pop in whisky form. Thanks for taking one for the team as I’ll be sure to avoid this if I ever cross it’s path in the future.