| #085 Club 400 3 YO Special Reserve Blended American |
| 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 | $500 |  |
| 00-09: | Horrid | | 10-19: | Awful | | 20-29: | Unpleasant | | 30-39: | Poor | | 40-49: | Below Average | | 50-59: | Average | | 60-69: | Recommendable | | 70-79: | Very Good | | 80-89: | Excellent | | 90-99: | Fantastic |
Taste Score | 50 |
| The whisky's score as weighed against the cost of a bottle. Adj. Score | 56 |
| ABV | 40% |
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| Tasting # 98: Green Christmas 4: Odd Americans (23-MAR-2007) |
| Notes |  Two oddball whiskey blends found their way onto my shelves over the holidays.  Club 400 is a whiskey from Maryland that is truly amazing in its underwhelmingness. If I had a chart for things to mix with if you didn't want to taste the whisky, this might just top it. It might take up the whole list in fact. |
| Smell | Smells empty with only the faintest hints of rye and grain. I really had to swirl and sniff to get much, though=> Neutral. |
| Taste | The label on this bottle touts that it is 75% neutral grain spirits, and there be truth in advertising in the Free State. The taste is unbelievably neutral, bland, carrying but a shadow of a hint of flavor. It's flat with a tiny bit of rye and grain with no finish. Neutral, neutral, neutral! I even rifled a few online thesauruses to find a better adjective, but that covers it. There's very little to hate about the Club, it tastes like almost nothing so what could you hate? I'd certainly pick this over anything in the 40s if I had to because I'm not going to dislike it. There's just no passion or pleasure or pain in the glass. As an aside I almost never mix whiskies but Club 400 is fantastic for that purpose. The neutrality becomes invisibility when poured into cranberry juice or orange juice (which is where the last bits of this wound up);. I predict with little hesitation that you could pour this into just about any beverage as a mixer with similar results, if that's your thing. At least the home team didn't completely suck. |
| Tasting Score | 50 |
