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Napa Valley Soda Company

Root Beer

"Circa 1872"
"Organic"

"Natural"

Wet Planet Beverages, PO Box 25107, Rochester, New York 14625
585-381-3560

From the bottle: Napa Valley has long been synonymous with lifestyle, good health & natural beauty. Napa Valley Soda Co. is a brand with a pedigree dating back to 1872. We have captured history in a delicious natural soda.

Review:  

     Metallic, cocoa-puff nose. Burnt sugar lead, almost like molasses. Very light carbonation, smooth going in and then a bubbly finish. Very sweet, not much aftertaste. One over-arching taste escapes me, perhaps it is the organic invert sugar, whatever that is. I had tried this back in October, and like the vanilla nose but not the very sweet fruitiness that came with it. That bottle had a stronger carbonation, which I didnt like as much, with a molasses midrange and the very sweet, sugary finish. That bottle also had an almost cloyingly sweet flavor with little rootiness and a mellow aftertaste. My taste scores were identical on both bottles, but I gave the May 2006 bottle higher marks on mouthfeel -- perhaps because the carbonation had gone in the months I'd had the bottle?

Luke's Numbers (5/6/2006)

Ingredients: Carbonated water, organic invert sugar, caramel color, citric acid, and natural flavor. 12 oz. bottle, 190 calories, 15 mg sodium, 50 g carbohydrates (!), 50 g from sugars.

Links:  On the bottle, there is the website www.nvsoda.com, but that gets you redirected to the Wet Planet website.

Acquired:  through the Hastings Spring Break Root Beer Challenge, from correspondent Niklas Gustafson.

Available:  In Napa Valley, at least.

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