Are Whisky Tasting Notes Fake? How to get better at tasting Whisky

Are whisky and wine tasting notes real? How can you taste the flavours in Whisky? Here I expose the truth behind whisky tasting notes, my thoughts on flavours, marketing, synesthesia and a brief guide to improve the nosing and tasting of your whisky.

While a bit of whisky fun, I feel this is more suitable to people starting their whisky journey and to help get a discussion going around the struggle of trying to find the tasting notes of a whisky. So after watching the famous video “how to taste whisky like a sir” I wanted to give my light hearted whisky thoughts.