This
Week – Unicum (Part One)
Unicum
presents all of us here at Spirit Sunday with a serious problem; it
is totally awful. At the moment it tastes like a mouthful of raw
ginger and a shot of mouthwash at the same time. It
currently rates no stars. Undrinkable. Even smells awful.
The
difficulty is that there are no instructions (generally a spirit
shouldn't need instructions, but it's that bad that I need
professional guidance) and that the only information I can find on it
anywhere is in Hungarian, which doesn't translate into anything that
makes sense.
Over
the next week we will search high and low for something to mix with
it to try and raise its rating from 'no-stars' to 'some stars'. I'll
report back next week, if I survive.
So
instead this week I'll review – Amarula
A
variant of the “Irish Cream” style of drink, Amarula is a South
African cream liqueur laced with extract of the marula fruit.
Outwardly it looks no different to Baileys et al, except for the
elephant on the bottle. It's in smell you first find the fruit, which
comes off more as caramel than any fruit I can think of.
Local
rumour has it that some animals, warthogs, monkeys and similar
sometimes single out over-ripe marula fruit for the purpose of
getting drunk. Hopefully followers of this column, animals included,
only ever drink responsibly. But if you do tend to over indulge you
needn't be too worried about Amarula; at 17% it's not even a half
spirit in potency.
The
fruit-in-milk combination is a little unnerving considering it's
generally a bad thing when milk turns fruity but just put it out of
your mind. Great over ice.
Amarula
rates 3 stars.
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