| | Do you Like Scotch? Started with blended and ready to move onto the good stuff? Here's the skinny:
You have to find what you like, what's you 1, 2,3 choice for single malt? You'll need them if you start drinking single malt. Very few places even have them, when they do you'll need to know what you like.
How to start:
Start by tasting Speysides, there are more speysides single malts, so start... |
| | | | Do you Like Scotch? Started with blended and ready to move onto the good stuff? Here's the skinny:
You have to find what you like, what's you 1, 2,3 choice for single malt? You'll need them if you start drinking single malt. Very few places even have them, when they do you'll need to know what you like.
How to start:
Start by tasting Speysides, there are more speysides single malts, so start by looking at the Belvenies,etc. Try the 12 yr, if its good but not perfect move to 15, 18 and 21 year. Find a bench mark and then move on to lowland, isley, and highland.
Keep comparing to your benchmark. Make sure to retaste, add water, over ice, with soda. Find the ONE that is yours. I've found scotches on the 3rd tasting (laphrpoig) got better and better and now I'm just serching for the right aging and model.
Rememeber this is an Aquired Taste and the master distillers know that. They are making scotch with different woods, aging, malts to please many tastes. If it dosen't measure up then off to the blenders.
For a change try Irish whisky or bourbon now and again. A good Bushmills or a Jim Beam will remind you just how good single malt really is.
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| | Hey your here and I hope you are enjoying the wine and scotch reviews. Some info on how I review a wine. I picked wines based on what we are eating or what I'm interested in learning about. My wine cellar holds about 110 bottles of wine, and scotch or spirits in my case. My current wine intrests are Oregon Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris wines. Italian wines from Tuscany... |
| | | | Hey your here and I hope you are enjoying the wine and scotch reviews. Some info on how I review a wine. I picked wines based on what we are eating or what I'm interested in learning about. My wine cellar holds about 110 bottles of wine, and scotch or spirits in my case. My current wine intrests are Oregon Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris wines. Italian wines from Tuscany and Piedmont I'm trying to learn about right now. A wine review from professionals are helpful so I read them before I buy but almost never before I taste.
I do tasting in a different way from some. I never taste a wine and take the notes until I have a had at least one glass. It's the second half glass I smell and taste.
Things your not going to see here:
Pan reviews of wines, no use wasting space on wines that I wouldn't recommend to a friend or drink again. So you may never see wine on the list much under 85 for a rating. It dosen't mean I don't drink and make tasting notes of wines I dislike, I just don't put them on the site.
Me critisizing someone elses wine review, I look at what other people wirte when we agree on tastes of wine we seem to agree a lot. When we don't agree we don't agree a lot. Its taste, you need to find a wine reviewer who's tastes match yours. If the reviewer loves it and you can't drink it, look for another review that matchs your tastes. A good example for me is Wine Spectator's Harvey Steiman. If he like a Pinot Noir I seem to like it also.
How do you taste wine, how do you feel about wine review.
Love to know
Ted
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