A whiskey can gain intensity or complexity without improving balance across nose, palate and finish.
These are one critic’s observations, not validated universal scores. Our panel may disagree; do not equate all tannin or oak with defects.
Jennings’s contrast between Russell’s Reserve 1998 and the slightly tannic 2002, alongside Revival and Tribute, supports evaluating structure and finish separately from age, rarity and price. In blending trials score target fit and undesirable astringency independently of aromatic richness.
Fresh full-source audit241pages/28details. Preserve one-critic limitation and separate intensity from balance in consented sensory trials.
Atomic idea
A whiskey can gain intensity or complexity without improving balance across nose, palate and finish.
Reasoning
Jennings’s contrast between Russell’s Reserve 1998 and the slightly tannic 2002, alongside Revival and Tribute, supports evaluating structure and finish separately from age, rarity and price. In blending trials score target fit and undesirable astringency independently of aromatic richness.
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These are one critic’s observations, not validated universal scores. Our panel may disagree; do not equate all tannin or oak with defects.