The Chemistry of the Cask: How Wood Builds Whisky’s Flavour
Vanillin, oak lactones and tannins — the compounds behind the vanilla, coconut and drying finish we all reach for in tasting notes, and where they come from.
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Four Bottles, Four Recipes: How to Read a Four Roses Label
While trawling the local retailers for new releases, I saw four different Four Roses bottles on a site. Three of them had a four-letter code printed on them: OBSF, OESK, OESO, and the fourth had none. My curiosity piqued, I did what any whisky geek would do: bought one of each and then dived into … Read more