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Review: On The Rocks Cocktails – Aviation, Cosmopolitan, and Mai Tai

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Launched in 2016, On The Rocks ready-to-drink cocktails appear to have held a stable footing within the RTD area and chances are high excessive that you’ve got already seen bottles of On The Rocks at your neighborhood shops. The drinks goal to stay with conventional recipes and begin with premium well-known branded spirits as their base.

Let’s see what the thrill has been all about and check out three of their choices.

All are 40 proof.

On The Rocks Aviation – Larios gin is featured in OTR’s Aviation. At first, a powerful floral notice greets you (which can lean a bit an excessive amount of on perfumed cleaning soap), adopted by a berry fruitiness. The palate is nicely balanced between daring rounded gin and shiny cherry and citrus notes. Equal components dry (from the gin), bitter, and fruit-forward sweetness. The floral notice could also be overpowering and distracting for some, nevertheless it’s a stable sufficient model of the normal drink nonetheless. B+

On The Rocks Cosmopolitan – Effen vodka is the bottom spirit of this fashionable cocktail. The nostril is usually shiny strawberry. The palate follows swimsuit with a powerful strawberry soda profile (though the featured fruit is definitely cranberry), with candy and bitter notes each distinguished. The cocktail is true to what you’d count on from a bar, with vodka pronounced and fixed within the profile, plus daring ranges of each bitter and candy. No surprises right here — and no complaints when it’s as straightforward as open-and-pour. B+

On The Rocks Mai Tai – Cruzan rum is the spirit of selection on this tropical favourite. The nostril is a throwback to the pineapple-pear profile of white Haribo gummy bears, and suggests a reasonably candy concoction. The caramelized banana-vanilla notes of the rum are dominant, with sweet-tart pineapple not far behind, lingering with coconut undertones. In contrast to the opposite two, the sweetness on this drink as in comparison with the normal model is a few notches down, and makes for extra of a pleasing return sipper than the tiki bar counterpart. A-

every $12.50 per 375 ml bottle / ontherocks.com

On The Rocks Aviation

$12.5

Score


8.5/10

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