By
George Brozowski
If
you're anywhere near as lazy as I am then this column
is right up your alley. First of all let me explain how lazy
I can be. I have a stay at home job and still can't get to
work on time. However, I do enjoy a nice cocktail with all
kinds of goodies in it but hate all the prep work that goes
into it. That's how I finally discovered the true reason for
this recent rash of flavored spirits. It seems that there
are millions of people out there who hate peeling, slicing
and dicing a lemon or lime or peach as much as I do. Prepping
almost any kind of fruit is just too much for us lazy types
and that is why virtually every distiller has come out with
flavored spirits of all sorts.
Take
the lowly peach for example. You have to peel that fuzzy mess
of a skin off of it while it drips all that sticky sweet juice
all over the place and then slice it up into pieces around
that gigantic pit. And what is up with that pit anyway? Holy
cow, if you accidentally swallowed that sucker you'd be in
a world of hurt. In the first place you'd have to be a total
retard to even shove that thing in your mouth, but if you
were and you did it would kill you one way or the other. If
it didn't explode your esophagus going down or coming back
up it would get you another way. It would either back you
up so badly you'd explode from the buildup of offal things
or you'd suffer irreversible damage from the roto-rooter man
going in with his power auger trying to loosen things up and
flush them out. Any way you look at it we should all be grateful
for flavored spirits sparing us from some form of agonizing
stupidity, amputation or even death.
OK,
so let's skip the stupidity and death and get on with the
tasting and see if this stuff is better than losing all your
fingers to a sharp knife. Straight out of the bottle it certainly
smells like ripe, sweet peaches with very little alcohol to
speak of. It just might be a tad sweeter than the normal peach
and I can surmise that the extra touch of sweetness comes
from the sugar cane that produced the rum. Interestingly enough,
in the snifter, the aromas flip flop and the peach sweetness
takes a back seat to the sugar cane sweetness. On the palate
it is thick and oily and of course sweet and almost has the
consistency of peach juice. I get just a little rum flavor
and almost no alcohol. I keep talking about all this sweetness
but I have to admit it is well balanced and does not over
power the senses; in essence it is just right. The finish
is smooth and peachy and lasts a while and there is no alcohol
bite whatsoever. I have sampled some peach flavored spirits
in the past that tasted like they came out a test tube rather
than off of a tree but this taste is orchard fresh.
On
the rocks, the sweetness gets diluted down to a very nice
laid back semblance of a peach slice but retains the viscosity
and oiliness. Throughout all of this tasting there is barely
any rum presence but subliminally you know it's there.
To
my taste buds this Cruzan Peach Rum is a bit too sweet to
savor on its own and belongs mixed in with a few other things
and should produce some very interesting cocktails like; Peach
Mojitos, Peach Daquiris, Pyrat Passions, Peach Coolers, Fuzzy
Navels, Sangria and about a hundred others. So grab a bottle
of this stuff and start stirring and forget about slicing
off your fingers. At around $14.99 per 750ml bottle it won't
damage your wallet too much. Also, at only 21% alcohol by
volume it won't hurt your head too much either.
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