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- Raided Score: 61
- Publication: SpiritSurveyor
- Excerpt: Thin, un-redeeming, and the finish is painful. Luckily, there’s not a strong ethanol burn so it doesn’t stick around, but it’s still too long
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- Raided Score: 77
- Publication: Whisky Advocate
- Excerpt: There’s a flash of something more just before the swallow: corn, hot mint. But it vanishes in a bland, quick finish. Uninspiring, if surprisingly smooth for 6 month old whiskey.
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- Raided Score: 82
- Publication: Drinkhacker
- Excerpt: There’s nothing elevated in Hayes Parker, but it’s largely inoffensive, wearing its dessert-like fruitiness squarely on its sleeve. I don’t think it would be out of line to, say, make a punch with this, or serve it with cola to your brother-in-law… but only assuming payday’s in the distant future.
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- Raided Score: 70
- Publication: Whiskey Raiders
- Excerpt: This is the bottom of the proverbial barrel. It is revolting. This is so much worse than just about any other craft spirit I've tried, save for unlucky few.
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Intro:
This is a Total Wine house brand that is sourced from TerraPURE in the Carolinas - a company that "hyper ages" distills products by attempting to age them faster than conventionally possible using a proprietary method. They claim that this process will revolutionize the industry by providing producers with products that are comparable to well aged bourbons and ryes, in just a fraction of that time. Let's see how it is.
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Nose:
Wet cardboard, vanilla, wet wood, grass, dirt, mold
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Taste:
Sickeningly sweet, musty, craft, wet cardboard, lactic vomit
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Finish:
Nonexistent, hot, rough, sickeningly sweet, musty
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Overall:
This is the bottom of the proverbial barrel. It is revolting. This is so much worse than just about any other craft spirit I've tried, save for unlucky few.
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Score:
1
- Our in house critic rates spirits on a scale of 0-10 (10 best) and is aggregated the same as external sources