Sunday, November 13, 2011

Spirit Sunday - This week Lemon Z!


This week: Lemon Z (500mL) ($34)

I admit to a serious tactical error in choosing Lemon Z for this week's spirit. It wasn't until I opened the stylish frosted bottle I realised the mistake I made. As a teenager I remember a party where, instead of grown-up drink, we had several bottle of lemon essence, a synthetic baking product that's 85% alcohol and 15% burning pain. I had a bottle of it to myself, drinking it 50/50 with coke if I remember correctly.

That night my vomit was so acidic it burnt a yellow hole in the carpet near the table I blacked out under. The incident, and the day that followed, have been singed into my memory as one of supreme discomfit. Herein lies the difficulty with this particular review.

Lemon Z might be very nice. In fact it might be the nicest lemon liqueur of its kind in the world; I just couldn't tell you. Every sip gives me the kind of shudder one only gets when reliving a very painful, alcohol-related memory. I tried it on ice, as the bottle suggests. I tried with an assortment of fruit juices. I almost tried it with coke but got a particularly bad series of shivers, given the combination of smells.

Unfortunately this means I have to split this review into the practical and the theoretical. Practically I can't give Lemon Z any more than 1 star. I realise however that this is entirely due to my on prejudices, and so I'll give it a theoretical rating based on what I think I might think about it had I never spent an evening in my youth swigging poison.

Theoretically Lemon Z rates 3.5 stars.

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