Reigler, Susan. Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide. 2nd ed. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
The tasting section recommends a glass wider at the bottom and narrower at the top, observing color, nosing with the mouth slightly open, attending to mouthfeel, tasting neat before adding about half a teaspoon of water, and using personal sensory descriptors.
Susan Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, 2nd ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016), PDF sheets 32–36.
Susan Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, 2nd ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016), PDF sheets 32–36.
PDF sheet 36
PDF sheet 32
Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country, 2nd ed., PDF sheets 32–36.
Chapter 1 — How to Taste Bourbon
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Susan Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, 2nd ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016), PDF sheets 32–36.
Reigler, Susan. Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide. 2nd ed. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
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The tasting section recommends a glass wider at the bottom and narrower at the top, observing color, nosing with the mouth slightly open, attending to mouthfeel, tasting neat before adding about half a teaspoon of water, and using personal sensory descriptors.
PDF34–36supports this casual sequence. Prior wording added small-sip/finish instructions not explicitly present in this passage and implied more control than the source establishes. This is not a blinded or standardized sensory experiment; PDF32grain-definition wording also conflicts23.
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