Dr Pepper Berries and Cream the definitive review

Yesterday I found the newest member of the Dr. Pepper family. Berries & Cream. This new flavor caught my eye right away because no other mainline pop company makes anything even close, so I decided to review and post my findings. In this review I will endeavor to stay objective. Please note the Dr. Pepper company dose not endorse this review in any way. I even had to buy the pop myself. Anyway. . .

Packaging:
The label for B&C is either a dark, Berry Purple, or a light Cream, depending on weather you purchase the Diet or original variety, and the new "Fountain Classics" icon, that Dr. Pepper has been putting on the new flavors, is displayed on the side, but overall the effect is to make the bottle stand out from the rest. At least, at the first glance. The Dr. Pepper logo is predominately displayed on the front, but it is printed twice, which makes me think that there must have been some sort of mixup in the printing department, a disappointment to be sure.
Upon closer inspection we can find the normal pop bottle staples like "Nutritional Facts", ingredients, bar code, pressure warnings, "Natural & artificial flavor" notices, and refund stamps, needless to say we were disappointed that, after their many innovations in pop culture, the Dr. Pepper company decided not to let the genie out of the bottle on this one.
One other thing that we noticed is that the label was kind of wrinkled at the top of the bottle. This phenomena is due to the fact that the label was glued on crooked so that the top was loose and the bottom was tight. Overall with the double labeling and the crooked gluing, we got the impression that this new Dr. Pepper was rushed through production. Not a very good sign.

Operation:
When opened the standard FFFIIIISHSHSHSHSHSshshshsh was heard and the bubbles started to rise. After being carried from the back of walmart, being checked out, and then carried out to the car this particular flavor needed to be opened partially, and then closed tightly three times before the bottle could be safely opened. This is one more than the normal pop opening and, after Dr. Pepper's repeated claims to having solved the fizz problem, a disappointment.

Smell:
It smells like Dr. Pepper mixed with raspberries and Cream. Or like vanilla Dr. Pepper.

Taste:
Well at the first taste our panel was largely perturbed.
"It tastes like vanilla!" shouted Brad Menne, Conductor of the Boston Phil. and Jacob Olsen, Lead theologian of Supersublapsarianism at Olson seminary, stated "It would taste better cold. Can we go now?". After extended testing and adding some aftermarket ice, however, the panel decided that it was not all that bad, and had it's place.

Conclusion:
Once one gets past the shoddy labeling, and the lack of ice one can see that this new Dr. Pepper flavor has a niche that it can fill. A place, if you will, in which it may live in peace. Unfortunately that place it already taken by Dr. Pepper's last offering "Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper". But whatever your taste if it was the only thing around and you were lost in a desert you'd drink it.