Caleño Dark and Spicy

This is the follow up to Caleño’s Light and Zesty and I think it’s a much more interesting drink. It’s still lacking a real depth and kick – it’s not being quite brave enough with what it does with the ingredients – but there are some intriguing flavours meeting here. The coconut, vanilla and lime offset the pineapple rather effectively and come together to create an almost mentholated feel in the finish – my memory bank is dredging up Murray mints. The trouble for me is that, pleasant as it is, none of it is quite enough. The tonic is doing most of the heavy lifting in giving the drink punch, and these sets of flavours are very much just piggy-backing along. I’m underwhelmed.