Disclaimer: This E-liquid was provided to me free of charge for the purpose of conducting a review. This fact notwithstanding, I will, as best I'm able, provide an honest, accurate and unbiased assessment of this product. Pertinent portions of this review have been quoted from my review of Jameson's Irish Vapor Juice's Forbidden Fruit. http://vapour-taster.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/forbidden-fruit-by-jamesons-irish-vapor.html Quoted passages are in italics.
The name of the e-liquid, Tanjello, by Jameson's Irish Vapor Juice is a playful heterograph of the name of the fruit, Tangelo. (A heterograph is a word with different spelling, (somewhat) different meaning but the same pronunciation as another word.) The reason I wrote "(somewhat) different meaning" is that Tanjello, the e-liquid, like the fruit tangelo, is essentially tangerine flavoured, but the substitution of "...gelo" for "...jello" shifts the meaning of the word to include the notion of that playful, wobbly, gelatinous stuff most of us as youngsters adored and which some of us, as adults, still adore. Now, I'm faced with a quandary; do I write about the heterographic Tangelo or do I wax lyrical about the Tangerine?
... [give me a moment, I'm thinking] ...
Let's start with this: "The tangelo is a citrus fruit hybrid of (the) tangerine and pomelo or grapefruit. Sometimes referred to as honeybells, tangelos are the size of an adult fist, have a tangerine taste, and are juicy at the expense of flesh. They generally have loose skin and are easier to peel than oranges, readily distinguished from them by a characteristic "nipple" at the stem." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangelo So, essentially tangelos taste like tangerines. Wikipedia said it, so it must be true.
Tangerines. "The tangerine is an orange-colored citrus fruit which is closely related to the mandarin orange... Tangerines are smaller than common oranges, and are usually easier to peel and to split into segments. The taste is considered less sour, but sweeter and stronger, than that of an orange. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine
Jameson's Irish Vapor Juice is one of three e-liquid ranges owned and operated by Eric TheDad, Executive Chef and all round nice guy. The other two ranges are the spectacularly popular The Standard and the new addition to the stable, The Blueprint Vapor.
Jameson's Irish Vapor Juice offer a range of five liquids: Forbidden Fruit (Sweet apple and tangy lime) http://vapour-taster.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/forbidden-fruit-by-jamesons-irish-vapor.html, Peaches 'n Cream, Tanjello, Amelia (strawberry) and Melon Medley http://vapour-taster.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/melon-medley-by-jamesons-irish-vapor.html, each of which is available in nicotine strengths of 0, 6, 12, 18 and 24mg, comes in a 30ml bottle and costs US$25.00. Google will point you to a number of vendors who sell Tanjello.
The bottle is a dark brown glass (which protects the nicotine within from the deleterious effects of UV light) with a (non-childproof) black plastic, screw top cap. There's no dropper attached to the cap so you'll need to use a syringe, eye dropper or pipette to fill your device, all of which are readily and cheaply available online or at your local pharmacy. The label is an elegant, faux "olde worlde" design. The printed weathered edges of the label, the choice of fonts, the crest, the decorative scrollwork and signatures of the creators all help to impart a sense of vintage and quality to the bottle and its contents. The label contains the following information: the name of the liquid, the brand name, the phrases, "established 2012" and "quality crafted", a number denoting nicotine strength, a warning that the product contains nicotine and is not to be sold to minors. The following information also appears on the label; "Made from the finest local ingredients. Crafted locally in Southern California."
Judging the colour of the liquid through a dark brown bottle is impossible, so I fill an eye dropper with the liquid. The colour of the liquid is a semi-opaque, Melon Orange. To my eye, this particular hue looks almost pink. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_orange#Melon. Vigorously shaking the bottle, diffusing tiny bubbles of air throughout the liquid, sees them moving against the combined forces of gravity and the viscosity of the juice at a very sluggish pace, suggesting a high Vegetable Glycerin content. Even at 30 - 40 centimetres away from my nose, the aroma from the bottle is potent and is unmistakably that of a fruit from the Orange family, if not tangerine itself.
I'm vaping Tanjello in an Igo-L on a Provari running on an 18650 battery. There's five wraps of 0.2 (32AWG) Kanthal wire around three strands of 2mm Silica wick and the atomiser is reading 2.3ohms. I've set the voltage output to 4.5.
I fire the device, draw the vapour into my mouth and the flavour of warm, sweet citrus washes across my taste buds. There's an almost imperceptible fine grained fizziness experienced foremost on the tip and almost immediately thereafter, along the length of the tongue. As I finish inhaling vapour, I follow through with a short breath of fresh air to chase the warm volume into my lungs and as I do so the flavour of tangerine crystallises and assumes a level of substance that declares, clearly and without equivocation, "I am Tangerine!" With a capital T. The flavour continues, full bodied and unabated through the exhalation and into the last lingering moments of the aftertaste, accompanied by a very mild acidic tang on the tip of my tongue.
Throat hit at 18mg nicotine content is substantial, kicking like the proverbial mule and as a VG laden juice, vapour production is also significant. The texture of the vapour as I inhale is velvety, warm and utterly luxurious.
Any person skilled in their craft will tell you that the most difficult thing to do well, is the very thing that looks simplest to the untrained eye. Tanjello makes no pretence of being anything other than the flavour of a single fruit and it does this with flying colours. The flavour is authentic, tasting absolutely like the actual fruit. The only thing missing is the juice running between your fingers. This is a rare achievement and something to be celebrated. It takes a refined palate, experience and skill to produce a convincing fruit flavoured e-liquid. Hats off Jamesons!
Tanjello is well worth your hard earned roubles.
