Paterson starts with the customer's intended character and describes a light/medium/heavy working classification based on whiskies around four to six years old. The visual table is a scoped practitioner scheme, not a ranking of all bottled expressions.
Richard Paterson and Gavin D. Smith, Goodness Nose: The Passionate Revelations of a Scotch Whisky Master Blender (The Angels’ Share / Neil Wilson Publishing, copyright 2011; first published 2008), chap. 7, supplied PDF 207–210.
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Paterson and Smith, Goodness Nose, PDF 207–210.
Chapter 7; supplied PDF pagination
Fresh review confirms PDF207–210 attribution. Figure210 is scoped to approximately4–6-year-old working stocks and duplicates Cardhu; historical tables203/206 are different dated schemes. No universal quality ranking or current-bottle validation. Physical pages in312-page supplied conversion; attribution fidelity only, not independent truth verification. Unrelated source copy defects124/126 remain documented.
Paterson starts with the customer's intended character and describes a light/medium/heavy working classification based on whiskies around four to six years old. The visual table is a scoped practitioner scheme, not a ranking of all bottled expressions.
