Maker’s Mark Bourbon Flavored Cherries
Maker’s Mark Bourbon Flavored Cherries, much like the Sable & Rosenfeld Tipsy Cherries I wrote about previously, look more or less like standard-issue cocktail cherries. They’re bright red. They have stems at least some of the time.They look like candy.
However, their smell reveals a key difference: the Maker’s Mark cherries smell like booze. Go ahead and bite in, and you’ll find they taste that way, too. The Maker’s Mark Bourbon Flavored Cherries offer a much more powerful whiskey kick than the Sable & Rosenfeld Tipsy Cherries do. They would make an excellent complement to a Maker’s Manhattan or Old Fashioned.
As in the case of the Sable & Rosenfeld cherries, I would say these are a nudge above general consumption cocktail cherries, and I’d actually place them a nudge above the Sable & Rosenfeld ones, too. While Sable & Rosenfeld may win on the front of appearance as the Maker’s Mark cherries tend to look a bit more battle-torn, the Maker’s Mark cherries have a much more complex flavor. That said, I would still consider the two basically part of the same class — slightly fancier cocktail cherries that will be more or less familiar to most folks. These aren’t radically new in the sense of being novel, or radically old in the sense of being a true throwback or classic cocktail-type product. But, for what they are, they’re quite good.
