Jack Daniel’s Winter Jack Tennessee Cider (15% ABV / 30 Proof)

we taste all spirits neat and at room temperature first, and at room temperature the nose leads with crisp Red Delicious apple. The apple note on the nose is pretty ‘true’ and only has a very slight artificial quality to it. Right behind the apple note is orange, which comes off a little more orange tic-tac than natural orange. There is a hint of spice behind the fruit notes, but it’s extremely subtle. On the nose it’s very hard to pick out any of Jack Daniel’s traditional aromas. The entry for the Winter Jack is very thin, with the aromas from the nose muted on the palate with apple, orange, and cinnamon. The mouth feel is weak and watery, and again there’s very little Jack Daniels DNA here. It’s really at the end of the midpalate that we get any sense that this is a flavored whiskey, but the notes are so faint that they are fleeting, and by the time the short finish ends, they’ve vanished.