Veil Pear Vodka

Review dated 5/23: Wow, this has a luscious pear aroma with significant richness and sweetness, giving it a juicy yet crisp presence. It smells more like pear gummies, but still appealing. The taste has a big hit of pear gummies with a bitter, metallic undertone that gradually builds and becomes overwhelming. The richness and sweetness are nice, but the core flavor suffers. It's still not bad, but the peach variety coheres a bit better. The alcohol and metallic flavors come through here quite a bit. The peach tastes more like peach gummies with alcohol. This has more of a metallic flavor and is just kind of off. It tastes a bit like bubblegum too. I'd place this just behind the Citron. The aroma is a lot like pear jolly ranchers with a surprising amount of sourness. The taste is quite full with a lot of jolly rancher flavor followed by pear, then metal, then a dash of rubber. It's better than the pineapple, but not by much and it doesn't really taste a whole lot like pear. If the citron were labeled as lemon, it would be worse than this, though that statement doesn't actually make this better. It has a lot of green apple jolly rancher to it too, which is really odd, but at least is still fruity. It doesn't taste bad so much as it tastes wrong. It's a bit above pineapple, but a step below citron. A rating of 5 makes sense given that those are rated 4 and 6 respectively. The rubber does eventually start coming through, but it doesn't last, fortunately. I could lower this rating, but I'll leave it at 5 for now.