{"id":2420,"date":"2020-10-27T17:24:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theginisin.com\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2020-10-27T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:24:05","slug":"extra-frizz-tonica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/?p=2420","title":{"rendered":"Extra Frizz Tonica"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/a> Extra Frizz Tonica\n

Have you ever done a review in the dark before? I’ve been hunting the internet high and low, and I’m not 100% what the brand name of this tonic water is.<\/p>\n

I’m only vaguely certain of two things. One, there’s a picture of Italy on the side of the bottle with the Italian flag colored in. I’m pretty certain that this tonic is Italian. Two, It’s tonic. It does have a bit [and not much, but more on that in a moment] of that bitterness that usually hints at the fact something is quinine. That’s where we are.<\/p>\n

Our story begins
<\/strong>When I walk into the Astoria Euromart <\/a>with the express purpose of finding a case of this<\/a>\u00a0but as luck would have it the only “tonic” that I could find that they didn’t stock in every other grocery store in the states was this one. Extra Tonica. Effervescentement Tua. With a woman licking her lips in a way that seems more\u00a0eerily\u00a0sexual than it does delicious. But nevertheless, if it says Tonica on the bottle I will not be deterred.<\/p>\n

Our Story Continues
<\/strong>The sweetening agent in here is sugar. But it tastes oddly saccharine, almost two sweet and a little bit sour at the same time. The bitterness comes at the end, but rather mildly. I might be making an assumption, but based off of my comparison between the American Schweppes and the European versions, Tonics seemed to be a bit more bitter. This one seems to have the extra bitterness of European tonics, but that over saccharine character of American tonics.<\/p>\n

I wish I could say the result was pleasing to the palette. It mixed with gin and make a clearly Gin and Tonic like character, but it’s hard to shake that puckering unpleasant sweet note from the beginning. I suppose not everyone might be as put off by it as I was, but I just seem unsettled by it. It adds a note that I don’t like all that much to my gin. It has a strong flavor. I think the best tonics let the gin shine. You’re going to taste the gin clearly, but a slight after taste of this tonic water will linger with you. In contrast with most tonics, its less clean and sprightly and more of a tangy sour bitterness in the back of your palette. So perhaps an acquired taste more so than other tonic waters? Or evidence of a completely different style in a different part of Europe. I’m not sure. This is my only example and the first time I had an Italian Tonic.<\/p>\n

I think you can do worse in terms of Tonic, but for the price [1.99\/200mL] I think there’s better tonics out there.<\/p>\n

Price: <\/strong>$2\/200mL [at least here in Queens]
Best consumed:<\/strong>Can use a little bit of citrus to offset its bitter character. Gin flavors do shine through, but it does add its own notes.
Availability:<\/strong>The Euromart in Astoria, Queens, NYC is the only place I can verify this tonic exists as of right now.
Rating: <\/strong>Mediocre, a bit too bitter, a bit too sweet, and never quite tonic enough for me. To each their own, but I think there’s better tonics on the aisle of my local supermarket.
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Have you ever done a review in the dark before? I’ve been hunting the internet high and low, and I’m not 100% what the brand name of this tonic water is. I’m only vaguely certain of two things. One, there’s a picture of Italy on the side of the bottle with the Italian flag colored … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","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\/2420","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=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonicreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}