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Core summary
The guide separates analytical tasting from ordinary drinking. It recommends identical clear tulip-shaped glasses, moderate pours, gentle nosing rather than aggressive swirling of high-proof spirit, small sips, retronasal attention, and recording aroma, palate, texture, and finish. It groups descriptors into broad families and suggests optional water trials to reveal or suppress features at different strengths.
Author argument
Comparative bourbon tasting becomes more informative when glassware, pour, nosing, sipping, vocabulary, and dilution are controlled and recorded.
Evidence map
Glass and pour standardization; high-proof nosing caution; aroma/palate/finish sequence; descriptor families; water and proof-down discussion.
Critical assessment
Producer guidance without formal sensory-study citations. Its statement about industry dilution to very low proof is context-dependent; exact methods should come from the corpus’s sensory authorities.
Retrieval and synthesis
Operationally useful for consumers when combined with blind order, randomized samples, palate rests, repeated trials, and proof normalization already established in Step 1.
Publication-stage controls
Open questions
None blocking. Regulatory, historical, scientific, and category-boundary claims are routed to stronger authorities before publication.
