How to Taste Maritime Notes in Whisky
Sometimes, seaside flavors can appear within your whisky glass, offering up notes of rock pools, vanilla ice cream, beach barbecue, smoked shellfish, and more.
Sometimes, seaside flavors can appear within your whisky glass, offering up notes of rock pools, vanilla ice cream, beach barbecue, smoked shellfish, and more.
Nuttiness presents itself in both new-make spirit and mature whiskies, and you can even call specific nuts out by name when tasting whisky.
Coffee flavors and whisky are oft interwoven in delightful ways, in things like Irish Coffee, whisky-flavored coffee beans, and coffee-flavored whiskey.
Whiskies of all sorts can run the gamut of berry flavors, from tart red berries to tangy blueberries and juicy blackberries.
From macaroons to Almond joy, there’s an array of coconut notes to discover in bourbon, scotch, and beyond.
Notes of fresh-baked baguette or iced sticky buns come from specific compounds in grain and oak.
All whisky is aged in wood, but the final flavor result can vary dramatically.
From Irish to Tennessee whiskey, some drams produce a distinct banana flavor. Here’s why.
From sour to sweet, learn to pick up a range of lemon flavors in single malt whisky.
From Earl Grey to Lapsang Souchoung, different whiskies can highlight a variety of tea flavors.
From nutmeg to clove and cinnamon, there’s a whole spice rack’s worth of flavors in your whisky.
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