Rangtang
Review
By George Brozowski
Allow
me to preamble this review by saying that Three Olives
Vodka, with no flavoring, is an outstanding, super
smooooooth, super premium vodka that is perfect all by itself
and makes a wonderful martini. Some of the Three Olives
flavored vodkas are even interesting as standalone curiosities.
I still fail to understand why anyone in their right mind would
take and expensive vodka and add a dozen or two ingredients
(that mask all its wonderful traits) to make an exotic cocktail
when a vodka costing half the price of this one will suffice
to make a Bloody Mary or a Harvey Wallbanger or some insipid
drink with an umbrella in it.
Well,
my opinion notwithstanding, Three Olives has
now created at least 15 flavored vodkas using their super premium
standalone brand and their newest entry is (are you ready for
this?) "RANGTANG". The name really says it
all. It seems to be a combination of rancid or orangutan or
the past tense of RUN or RING and of course TANG. As anyone
who is old enough to remember the early space flights will recall,
there was an orange flavored powder call TANG that you could
mix with water that purportedly produced so called orange juice.
It was the drink of the astronauts and no doubt ad revenue probably
paid NASA enough money to send many a man into space. That TANG
and this RANGTANG have much in common. They are both
horrible! Although the smoothness of this vodka is maintained
the flavor has been defiled to the point that it makes you wonder
what in the hell were these people thinking?
I
would certainly take the distillers recommendations and mix
this poontang with as many ingredients as possible to disguise
the flavor. The smoothness will still be there and you will
be spared the "taste". I am certain that this flavored
vodka is targeted to those drinkers who have just reached the
ripe old age of 21 and need a transitory taste experience that
will eventually allow their immature taste buds to mature and
develop an appreciation for real VODKA.
If
you really want to enjoy Three Olives Vodka
with this flavor profile buy a bottle of the UNflavored vodka,
pour yourself a glass and either rim the glass with an orange
peel or dunk a slice of real orange in it, NA ZDROVIE!
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