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I will admit that this is one of those times where I saw a familiar logo, and I decided I was going to try the beverage. Here's the thing, though. I haven't had Sunny D, the actual beverage, in several decades. I don't remember if it was any good, and I'm not sure that really matters right now. My experience with these types of beverage, specifically the Mountain Dew, is that they don't have to taste anything like the beverage that they are theoretically based on. As a result, this beverage has just as good of a chance of tasting like Sunny D as it does tasting like Tang.
Well, it doesn't pour like any other seltzer I think I've had so far. I don't remember any other seltzer being quite so hazy with color. In fact, this looks more like a lemonade then it does a seltzer. My immediate question upon pouring it, after overcoming my shock at the color, was to try and determine whether or not it was carbonated. Well, now that I'm looking at it in the glass, it is. The aroma is actually very nice with orange, lemon, and possibly lime. It smells like it's going to be full of flavor, and I know that seltzers don't have much flavor, so this may be setting me up for a let down. But, there's a possibility that this will strike a perfect balance. I'm going to find out which of these things is true.
First sip has tons of flavor in it. In fact, I'm going to go out of my way to add the hard soda label to this seltzer. In fact, it should probably be marketed as a low calorie hard soda. Oh yeah, it says it's 95 calories and zero sugar. That zero sugar is really the key to the sip. This could use some sugar. It's not that it's not sweet, but the aftertaste of the fake sugar isn't good. I don't know what kind of fake sweetener they have in this, but it is leaving one heck of an aftertaste in its wake. I think the real problem is not just that there's an aftertaste, but there is a pause between when the beverage is gone from the mouth and when the aftertaste hits. I find myself thinking about the next sip I might take and bracing for that aftertaste to hit. It's not good.
Tip-in is a delightful orange, moderate carbonation, and possibly a little lime. The middle sends tangy orange to the roof of the mouth where it can hang around with the carbonation buzz and a watery mixture of soda water flushes itself down the throat as capably as it is possible. The finish brings back orange to the center of the mouth with the unfortunate sweetener swelling into aftertaste. The bad sweetener takes over for the trail off and never lets go.
Bottom Line: Unfortunate in its implementation
1.0/5
