Whiskey Tasting 

Stage 3

Primary taste: What are the initial flavours you pick up as the liquid slides over your taste buds'; is it sweet, sour, salty, bitter'

Stage 4

Back of palate: as you swallow, is the back-palate flavour consistent with that promised by the bouquet and first taste', or is it beginning to show different characteristics'

Stage 5

Aftertaste: is it a short finish, a rapid fade, or does the flavour linger like a summers sunset over Galway Bay. A good Irish malt will linger on your taste buds'.