Instead, the best whisky for your palate will likely be an easy-drinking sweet and fruity dram, but if in doubt, our tasting notes should direct you to the perfect whisky for you. If whisky is all new to you, you might want to avoid the overly smoky, peated styles, which can be quite overpowering to the uninitiated. What Should I Look for When Picking a Whisky? Younger ones respond to a drop of water to bring out more nuanced flavours. Those scents are why you’re best of serving your scotch at room temperature. If it’s richer, redder and smells fruity, you might have a whisky that’s been ‘finished’ by being stored in a sherry cask just before bottling. If you’re smelling a bit of smoke, chances are it’s been aged in an ex- bourbon barrel.
The barrels the whisky has been stored in will have a big impact on the nose. Flavours that pop up a lot are vanilla, butterscotch, clove, cinnamon and orange. Isle of Jura Distillery Superstition Lightly Peated Single Malt Scotch Whisky. Half the tasting experience is in the nose, but whiskies have a lot of common flavours running through them, making this one easy to blag. Jura Isle of Jura Single Malt Scotch Whisky 10 year old, Scotland, 750ml Bottle. Its stem keeps your hands away so the warmth isn’t evaporating the whisky, and the tulip shape channels your dram’s aromas straight up your nostrils. A heavy-bottomed tumbler is good, but the best is this Perfect Measure Whisky Glass. Getting it talking demands the right glassware. Your first gulp primes your tastebuds, while the second is when the whisky shows you precisely what it’s going to say. Put it in the middle of your tongue, underneath, then back and in the middle. When tasting whisky or drinking it neat, you should aim to keep it in your mouth for 12-20 seconds. Ignore the shot-glass approach you’ve seen on the big screen. However, whisky has no fat, no carbs, and almost no sugar, so as booze goes, it’s relatively healthy in moderation. The whisky’s grain, distillation and maturing process define not only its character - from smoky Islay scotches to the sweet and smooth sippers more typically associated with the Lowlands - but also its clarity and the amount of health-boosting ingredients it might have. In Superstition, the owners wanted to produce a wild whisky that's as rich as the Jura story and a testament to all the intriguing histories around the world, so they added the ancient Ankh cross, a symbol of good luck in the western isles, to the front of the bottle. Put simply, single malt scotch must have been distilled at a single distillery in, you guessed it, Scotland, in order to bear this label. Show more What is Single Malt Scotch Whisky?
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