The 0–4 values are ordinal author-coded intensity, not equal-interval measurements or objective quality. Preserve raw observations and disagreements before category coding. The source's descriptor count varies elsewhere; its twelve-category scheme is not universal.
The page explains the vocabulary reduction and scoring method used to construct the book's flavor profiles.
Wishart groups more than 400 whisky descriptors into 12 flavor categories and scores each category's intensity from 0 to 4, while acknowledging that writers and distillers disagree and that judgment is unavoidable.
PDF sheet 62
Whisky Flavours — Flavour Profile
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Wishart groups more than 400 whisky descriptors into 12 flavor categories and scores each category's intensity from 0 to 4, while acknowledging that writers and distillers disagree and that judgment is unavoidable.
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Context
The page explains the vocabulary reduction and scoring method used to construct the book's flavor profiles.
Annotation
The 0–4 values are ordinal author-coded intensity, not equal-interval measurements or objective quality. Preserve raw observations and disagreements before category coding. The source's descriptor count varies elsewhere; its twelve-category scheme is not universal.
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