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Author: BuffaloJern

I am the Buffalo editor and curator of Honest Booze Reviews

Esme Gin 750mL

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One does not typically think of France when one thinks of Gin, but then if you had been given this in a blind solo cup test – it’s not like you’d be able to determine it comes just a bit south of the good ol’ english. Sure looking at it – the design certainly can invoke that imagery, but what you get with the taste is something good, but not too good. Really though the end result of this whole endeavor is something that actually works well in a G&T and surprisingly isn’t overpriced to match it’s look.

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Casa Noble Reposado Tequila

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The downside of reviewing things on this site at a moderate schedule is that we’ll often say we’d look forward to trying a similar version of something – especially with tequilas where we’ve had a blanco or reposado and want to try the other (or even the anejo). Then of course time marches on so we come to a situation where we’re like – oh yeah we should do the reposado of Casa Noble given how much we actually like the blanco ver. That was in 2016 which according to our records was over a century ago. Anyway how does the aged version fare?

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Beluga Transatlantic Racing Export Noble Russian Vodka 750mL

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The best days of doing these reviews on this site is when you find something that you’d normally never try, and are rewarded for the experience. While that may be colored by having so many bad spirits show up – it goes to the ethos of the site that it’s far worse to be stuck in the rut of what you know, instead of what could be. We honestly might have been stuck forever drinking Ketel One had we not started this reviewing process. In short we have to give props to a yacht racing vodka (no wait don’t go we’re not exactly cool how upper white middle class it is either)

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Artifact ‘Wolf at the Door’ Bittersharp Craft Cider

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Wolf at the Door: 6.5 – While we’ve not had them before on the site between some English trips and a good ol’ Downeast or Woodchuck it’s not like we haven’t been building up some knowledge and preferences. With that how does Wolf at the Door fair? Well it’s certainly not a sweet one, but the tart apple flavor is there, and the aftertaste is short and clean. Overall certainly worth it, but not mind-blowing.

Price Average: $14 for 4-pack

Website: https://www.artifactcider.com/

Dynasty Spirits Tower Vodka 750mL

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Now as part of our review process we include the website. This is mostly so that if you want to hear more, or see other things said spirit company makes you can easily do so. Typically finding this is well – easy. Occasionally it’s on the bottle, but often a quick good search will work despite sites to buy stuff cluttering it up. In trying to find this though what we found was Dynasty Spirits and most often them being in a few legal jumbo around copycats – which given us thinking this was a knockoff Tito’s pretty much nailed the screw to the board. Given that fact was not a great start considering we at best consider Tito’s to be – average.

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