Whiskey for Women

I went to the Jack Daniels Honey Whiskey launch earlier this week and while I don’t usually write about food or drinks unless I make it, I had a couple thoughts about the drink.

I’m not a whiskey drinker. Usually I tend to go for bourbon or red wine. I also don’t have a sweet tooth. I like my wines dry and my champagne brut. I like my mixed drinks tart.

So when I tried the Jack Daniels with lemonade, it took me forever to drink it as it was tooth-hurtingly sweet for me. I liked it best by itself with ice – you could appreciate the flavour and even then it wasn’t overwhemingly honeyesque. But I had to swirl the glass to melt the ice and dilute it a bit.

I went looking for it in the LCBO and it wasn’t with the whiskeys, it was with the liqueurs which seems appropriate.

On the plus side, Jack Daniels did get people (not just women, please) drinking their new product so that’s a win for them. Personally, I’m not planning on adding it to my drinks repertoire.