Thematic Tasting Basics

While just gathering folks around a few bottles is often enough, if you hold regular get togethers, at a certain point you might want to decide on a theme beforehand. You might focus on one specific style or spend the night doing a deep dive into one particular distillery. However, it can be most exciting to structure themed tastings around more “out there” ideas. Several Themes To Get You Started KEEP IT LOCAL With so much great whisky around the globe, sometimes we forget to check in on our neighbors. Devote a tasting to only distilleries from your city, state, or region. GO VERTICAL Attempt to assemble a vertical lineup, meaning several years in a row of the same release. Though whisky doesn’t age in the bottle, production methods and the randomness of barrel aging…

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