{"id":1688,"date":"2020-10-27T17:24:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theginisin.com\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2020-10-27T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:24:05","slug":"vintage-tonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/?p=1688","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Tonic"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Firstly, some of you might recognize this as a store brand of tonic. And you might wonder “why on Earth would I be reviewing this?”<\/p>\n

To that I shake my head. If you ignore store brands, you miss out on some surprising things. Write off store brands, and you write off the actually-pretty-good 365 Tonic Water from Whole Foods<\/a>. So naturally, after having this tonic at a party the previous weekend [while I was drinking mind you- it was the house tonic in the party tent] I thought I would give this previously overlooked tonic its due and I quickly picked up two bottles…. At the price point of 79 cents, how could I go wrong?<\/p>\n

Let Me Count the Ways
<\/strong>Firstly Vintage Tonic is a bit too sweet. Although there is requisite quinine in here, there’s a bit of a mouth puckering syrupy-sweet note, vaguely reminiscent of store brand colas, in the way that the don’t have the “bite” or “sharpness” that Coke or Pepsi do. It tastes less carbonated [and this was the first serving] than similar inexpensive tonic waters.<\/p>\n

I should say that in tonics that cost less than 2 dollars per liter [Canada Dry<\/a>, Schweppes, Polar<\/a>, etc] I don’t expect complexity, depth, or even balance. I hope for a slightly sweet soda with some quinine flavor. What you get here isn’t quite that. It’s an overly sweet, slightly bitter, and overall disappointing tonic water.<\/p>\n

Sure, \u00a0I didn’t notice at the fiesta. I was too busy having a good time: dancing, singing [yes, singing], eating food etc. [Even Gin Bloggers take nights off!]. So it can be said without a doubt that tonic waters like this have a place [such as when you need to quench the thirst of a hundred of your closest family and friends] and other times where I’d recommend splurging for the Canada Dry or similar. Even at double the cost it’s worth it to upgrade a bit.<\/p>\n

Price:\u00a0<\/strong>~.80\/Liter
Best consumed:<\/strong>\u00a0With inexpensive party gin. If you’re drinking some of the gins I talk about on here, I’d recommend at the very least trading up to the Canada Dry level.
Availability: <\/strong>Most grocery stores
Rating:\u00a0<\/strong>A little to sweet and not enough quinine for my tastes. Treat it as a party supply and nothing more.\u00a0
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Firstly, some of you might recognize this as a store brand of tonic. And you might wonder “why on Earth would I be reviewing this?” To that I shake my head. If you ignore store brands, you miss out on some surprising things. Write off store brands, and you write off the actually-pretty-good 365 Tonic … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}