Adaminak
Johnnie Walker Red Label
Blended — Scotland
Reviewed
December 20, 2016 (edited August 16, 2017)
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...
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Wow, you must have REALLY hated the Alberta Dark Batch =) Looking forward to the review! LOL
The most hilarious and yet perfectly genuine comment thread I've ever read on this app! I've got nothing to add.
For me, hovering down at the bottom end of the finer whisk(e)y range is preferable to getting caught up in the flavor-added spirits realm.
I mean, I get that I'm a bougie SOB for dropping the kind of money I do on fine bottles of whiskey, and I always keep "bottom shelf," affordable bottles for making cocktails, but flavored whiskey..that's the stuff I just don't get. Different strokes, I suppose.
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I think there's an entire market for flavored whiskies. None of us probably on this review site would be on that consumer list though. I actually think in terms of revenue, there's more money in that flavored and mixing category whiskey than in the premium malts. After all...how many people would have the disposable income to buy Lag DE, Macallans, and other $50+ malts? Guys (and gals)...we here on this review site are the 1%.
Whiskey belongs in the pecan pie, not vice versa. I'm not sure whether it's more baffling that someone makes and sells it, or that evidently enough people buy it and drink it. Also, JW Red belongs in a scotch & soda, not served up neat.
Oh there's lots of flavored whiskey out there. IMO Crown made the Apple version to knock sales of sour apple schnapps down for people who love the Washington Apple shooter. It's very popular in bars/clubs around here. I don't have much use for Fireball or those honey and cherry bourbons that currently take up a ton of space on liquor shelves around here, either. Most are very gross on their own, but I guess people love them in shooters and cocktails. I'm a snobby, neat whisk(e)y drinker exclusively haha.
Lee; I didn't even know flavored whisky like this was a thing. I've seen Fireball (great in hot chocolate), and Apple Crown (no clue what it's like, but it's up in a day or two), but Pecan Pie Whisky? Pumpkin spice whisky? Blech!
Glad I could help Pranay; I'm doing this as much for you as I am because I promised myself (and the gift giver) that I would enjoy this sampling. Next year, I'm going to introduce them to the Malt Master 12 Days Whisky set!
The pecan pie whisky brings back bad memories of when I did a tasting flight of some Revel Stoke blends and reached the final Pumpkin Spice sample. Needless to say, it was NOT pretty. Lesson learned that day: artificially flavored whisk(e)y is bad. Very bad.
Can I just say...I'm so enjoying living vicariously through this Journey Down Frat House Lane