Around the holidays, folks at the office like to do a white elephant gift exchange. There's one gift in particular that has made an appearance every year for the past couple of years: a bottle of bubblegum-flavored vodka that some poor soul trudges home with every year, only to have to hang on to it for ~365 days for the opportunity to re-gift it to another unsuspecting soul the following year. This Pendleton Blended Canadian Whisky may give that bubblegum vodka a run for its money. Nose: Oh dear, does that odor bring me back to my days in the lab. Smells like a malfunctioning fume hood. Sweet, lab-grade ethanol with some diethyl ether mixed in. Sticky note adhesive. Vanilla extracted with acetone. Very dilute caramel and artificial maple syrup. For only being 40% ABV, I think I might get high from huffing this. Palate: Ouch. Light-bodied, cloying, artificially sweet, vanilla buttercream-flavored glue. Finish: Not mercifully short enough. The initial wave of artificial sweetness passes quickly, but an unpleasant aftertaste like vanilla-flavored cough syrup hangs around for much too long. Verdict: This is not good. Do not pass "Go", do not collect $200. I wouldn't recommend this as a mixer. I wouldn't wish this on someone as a white elephant "gift" - in fact, I think I may pour this out. 1.5 ~ Very Poor