| #390 Canadian Mist NAS Blended Canadian | |||||||||||||||||||||
| This cost is what I found the likely shelf price for a 750ml bottle to be, based on an average of costs throughout the USA. Your price may differ significantly. This is not an advertisement of sale, this bottle is likely empty by now anyway Cost | $1500 |  | |||||||||||||||||||
| 24 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The whisky's score as weighed against the cost of a bottle. Adj. Score | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ABV | 40% | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tasting # 422: Canadian Mist: blue label (05-MAR-2010) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | As of this tasting, Canadian Mist's older  Orange Label version has my least favorite Canadian Whisky of all time, sitting at the very bottom of my overall taste list for four solid years. Now, thanks to my new label = new review rule, I get to drink it again. Yikes. The fact that I picked this up as a one-buck mini is small comfort, I'm subjecting you to another dreary review of this repackaged horror. Because of that, I'm tossing this in on a Friday instead of the normal weekly review. I simply cannot imagine that this is anything but a new label (someone realized that mist isn't orange, I guess) of junk whisky. Sorry, but this stuff was miserable last time and if anyone at Canadian Mist reads this, I hate your whisky. You'll just have to console yourself by watching those truckloads of Canadian Dollars backing up to your headquarters. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st Impression | There's no path to objectivity here, but I will say the label is easier on the eyes. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Smell | Unbelievably sweet rye and raisins. Very sharp when you get down into the glass. Not as horrible as I remember, at least. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Taste | Ugh. I almost thought there was hope, but this is just bad whisky. I don't know if I can completely justify the old sub-20 score on this, but it's certainly an unpleasant pile of rye-tartness. There's nothing especially horrid up front, but the sandpaper attack of rye at the peak makes up for it and then some. Sour fade and so on and so on and nevermind. Ugh, just no. Really unhappy with this almost through the entire finish. To it's credit, it ends reasonably well, too bad you have to suffer through the actual... well, drinking part. I'm going to bump the score above 20 only because I now know where the depths of whisky truly lay, but don't take it as an improvement. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tasting Score | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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