Gettin' Dirty

Yes—given my penchant for dive bars, street food, movies like Roadhouse and Ski School, and the wonderful world of professional wresting—I do love to sample the ridiculous flavors of booze out there that might fall into the "so-bad-it's-good" group, or the ironic consumption category of "I'm only drinking it because it's so terrible."

I have bottles like the one above scattered all over my desk, and every sales rep in the Bay Area knows that I'm always interested in tasting things like peanut butter and jelly liqueur, or bubble gum flavored schnapps. But this new flavor from Pinnacle takes the cake—literally; it takes the cake and liquefies it into vodka. My favorite part about the new Cinnabon-flavored vodka from Pinnacle is the fact that it's not called "cinnamon roll flavored vodka," but rather "imitation cinnamon roll flavored vodka." It's not saying that the vodka is an imitation of a cinnamon roll. It's literally saying that Cinnabon's products themselves are so chemically-enhanced that they aren't really cinnamon rolls, but rather imitations of a cinnamon roll!! Hence, the vodka is flavored to taste like an imitation of a cinnamon roll, rather than, say, an actual cinnamon roll. Amazing!

I love being the spirits buyer. It's days like this that make all the hard work worthwhile.

-David Driscoll