
General14 November 2026
The Invisible Craft of the Whisky Tasting
The how-to guides tell you to print tasting sheets, share the line-up and finish on the peat. The people who host whisky tastings for a living put their effort somewhere else. I spoke to hosts at distilleries, shops, festivals and hired rooms around the country about what really makes a tasting work, and almost none of it is in the glass.