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.
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How to Taste Nutty Flavors in Whisky
Nuttiness presents itself in both new-make spirit and mature whiskies, and you can even call specific nuts out by name when tasting whisky.
How to Taste Coffee Flavors in Whisky
Coffee flavors and whisky are oft interwoven in delightful ways, in things like Irish Coffee, whisky-flavored coffee beans, and coffee-flavored whiskey.
How to Taste Berry Flavors in Whisky
Whiskies of all sorts can run the gamut of berry flavors, from tart red berries to tangy blueberries and juicy blackberries.
How to Taste Coconut Flavors in Whisky
From macaroons to Almond joy, there’s an array of coconut notes to discover in bourbon, scotch, and beyond.
How to Taste Bread Flavors in Whisky
Notes of fresh-baked baguette or iced sticky buns come from specific compounds in grain and oak.
How to Taste Wood Flavors in Whisky
All whisky is aged in wood, but the final flavor result can vary dramatically.
How to Taste Banana Flavors in Whisky
From Irish to Tennessee whiskey, some drams produce a distinct banana flavor. Here’s why.
How to Taste Lemon Flavors in Whisky
From sour to sweet, learn to pick up a range of lemon flavors in single malt whisky.
How to Taste Tea Flavors in Whisky
From Earl Grey to Lapsang Souchoung, different whiskies can highlight a variety of tea flavors.
How to Taste Spice Flavors in Whisky
From nutmeg to clove and cinnamon, there’s a whole spice rack’s worth of flavors in your whisky.
How to Taste Smoke Flavors in Whisky
It’s not all ash and iodine: Discover the nuances of peatiness in scotch.