Tasting

How do you taste whisky properly? The choice of the right glass, the tasting order, dilution with water and, last but not least, the mood are particularly important.

Customers often ask us in which order specific Whiskies should be tasted. In the following two videos, Horst Lüning gives you tips for the tasting order of Single Malts and American Whiskies. However, this should not be seen as absolute. There are enough reasons to deviate from this order.

Many Whisky connoisseurs would like to organise a tasting for friends, acquaintances or work colleagues. What makes a good tasting? Is it the Whiskies that are tasted, the participants, or rather the atmosphere? It's a combination of many things!

'I only drink my Whisky neat'. This is the basic attitude of many whisky connoisseurs. Should we leave this sentence as it is?

The alcohol content of a Whisky can be determined in various ways. If the alcohol content is known, how does dilution with water work?

A blind tasting is when you don't know which Whisky is in the glass. Now you can taste with an open mind!
How do you carry out a blind tasting of Whisky?