If you’re into whisky enough to regularly check up on whisky websites or YouTube channels–especially those related to Scottish enthusiast Roy, better known as Aquavitae–there’s a good chance you’ve heard talk of “natural presentation” or "integrity presentation". Even if you haven’t heard those particular turns of phrase, you’ve probably heard single malt enthusiasts prattling on …
Continue reading What is “integrity presentation,” and why do we care?
This is a quick guide to understanding my reviews. The title of the review is just whatever bottling or expression I will be reviewing. The first part of the body of the review should be understood as a sort of “tl;dr”–a general sense of how easily you might find what I’m reviewing, and a general …
What makes whisky so special? Well, for some people--poor, benighted souls!--nothing at all. They don’t drink, for whatever reasons, or if they do drink, they prefer wine or cognac or beer, or they drink anything that gets them where they’re going--a Jack and Coke, a shot of vodka, or copious amounts of the cheapest beer …
Tasting and rating whisky is an inherently subjective business. What one person may find wonderful, another may loathe; and where I may taste cinnamon, another may detect no such flavor. Bearing this in mind, the tasting experience may be, to a very considerable extent, untranslatable. And yet nonetheless, I’ve found the tasting notes of others …
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