Tasting note adjectives - how specific can one really be?

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Originally Posted by Bourserker

I, like many who replied to this thread, cannot make out more than a handful of flavors in any one whiskey either. I am also amused by tasting notes that have all kinds of exotic descriptors in them. I find them entertaining, but not that helpful. I can say one thing though, even though I can only pick out a few flavors in a given whiskey, I can definitely tell the difference between decent quality and crap.

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If you can tell the difference between decent quality and crap that's all you need to know!

Just have to keep in mind one person's decent quality spirit may be another person's crap!

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Originally Posted by tanstaafl2

Just have to keep in mind one person's decent quality spirit may be another person's crap!

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Very true................