Pink, bubbly, and twice as cloying as that sounds. (Schweppes Russchian)

Member Name: springychicky

Product:	Schweppes Russchian
Date:	12/07/09 (80 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good amount of bubbles.

Disadvantages: Tastes artificial and far too sweetly sticky.

This schweppes russian wild berry sparkling mineral water sounds like it would be a lightly flavoured, slightly sweetened, but refreshing sparkling drink. Perfect for a hot summer's day or possibly even with a tad of something harder splashed in of an evening.

Unfortunately, it does not live up to these expectations. The drink is overly sweet and cloying, sticking in the back of your throat when you drink it. Not very refreshing at all. This could possibly be mediated if it was ICE cold and served with extra ice cubes. Although I suspect then you'd be getting refreshed from the melting ice in the glass and the condensation on the lip of the glass as you drink. This is one seriously unrefreshing drink.

Next on to an assessment of the supposedly wild berry flavour. I don't know where schweppes have been picking wild berries, but this doesn't taste like any sort of berry I've ever seen. It doesn't even smell like berries. Not even the fake ones you get in most rasberry flavoured ice creams for example. About the closest you could get is that it tastes vaguely "red". ie. it tastes like the red food colouring in every completely artificial red sweet you ate as a child, but with a twist of artificial lemon flavour to supposedly make it taste more sophisticated, one imagines. Not, not good.

About the only good thing I can say about this drink is that it is a pretty pale pink colour. Also the level of "sparkle" in the water is about right - not so much that it burns your throat, but not too little either.

So, the moral of the story is, Schweppes flavoured mineral waters may still have hope, but pick up another flavour, this one's dire.

Summary: Give it a miss.