Cherry Heering – Liqueur Review

The problem with any cherry-flavored beverage is that since the beginning of time doctors have been using the flavor to mask the unpleasant taste of their ass-tastic-tasting cold medicine ingredients - like opium! What that means is everyone reading this will likely want to vomit at the idea of actually drinking something that tastes anything like cough syrup and carries with it such wonderful memories as "my first phlegm ball". Like all of you I was initially skeptical, but after my first taste I have to admit I really like Cherry Heering.

Who's got one eye and loves Opium? THIS GUY!

Ok, so maybe their catch phrase "Oh, so civilised." hasn't changes since their founding in 1818. But check it out, they got pretty ladies!

"My diet doesn't allow me to drink...anything." (From cherryheering.com)

Ok, I swear I'm not a shill for Cherry Heering, but please GO to their website now and look at their glamour shots, go ahead, I'll wait. Most of the time the product isn't actually in the photo's its just ladies in various stages of undress. But the best part of the photos is not the half-naked ladies, its the fact that ALL of their models are DRINKING NOTHING in every photo.

Alright, so what does it really taste like? A sugared-up Manhattan with a lot of of cherry. Seriously. When you taste it, obviously cherry is at the forefront but beyond that you get a distinct wine-like flavor reminiscent of sweet vermouth followed by a mild burn; i.e. a Manhattan. Ok, it's not quite a Manhattan in a bottle but once you taste it you'll have to admit the similarities. You can drink it straight but the real reason to buy Cherry Heering is that you can't make a lot of the classic cocktails without it.

So if you like cherry, or you'd really like to make some classic cocktails, or you're a booze nerd with an impulsive need to fill your entire closet with random bottles of booze nobody has ever heard of so you can feel validated as a human being...then get some Cherry Heering. Seriously, even if you don't have a cold, you'll probably like it.

Our Rating: **** (Highly Recommended) $20

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