Pt 1 of 2 - How to Taste Whisky with Richard Paterson

you know that's that's what it could you know handy dick you know you know handy date yeah and Ruthie well he came on the throne but what he did at the disillusion the monasteries between 1536 and 1541 and he made all these monks redundant and they had to leave their monasteries in England and already the art of distillation was known to them so they had nowhere to go and that's why they came into Scotland so they helped to bring the art of scotch whiskey here so that's why they distilled it in this stuff you see only want to see that stuff no this is this is this is actually the very beginning here this is what this is what the the distillers of the last centuries would have produced but what you must remember is this is the very beginning this is when it's not being matured in their casks you'll seen this before I've heard a little bit through Charlie okay so two things you must know charlie okay okay no fancy charlie okay this the things you what you must remember to two things you must always remember first thing if I ever see you holding a glass like this and nosing like this I'll kill you okay okay the second thing is what you what you do is in order to tell you something about the whiskey you pour it in the glass okay and you slow it on the floor okay because what you do want to do is dusty clean up the glass to make sure it's up to the actual quality of you're looking for so you must hold it in the glass like this this is 68 percent alcohol you swirl around and you say hello then you come up to it and say how are you then you come back up and say quite well thank you very much so it's like meeting you for the first time I don't know you lovely lady everything about you're fantastic but how am I going to get to know you the only way is to talk to you communicate and that's exactly what to do with the whiskey all right okay so you need to come on your hello sixty-eight percent alcohol hit your nose alright so you forget the alcohol and you go back into the middle of it and you say how are you you've got two nostrils one will be better than the other that's why you've got to move around to make sure that the time of the day whether it be in the morning or the afternoon will tell you more you need to know but if your eyes start flickering when you're nosing this new spirit that means you're losing it too aggressively in this sample room I've had three women or collapse and faint in front of me over the period I'm because they've nosed it too aggressively you must do it gently so when you nose it it immediately tells you something with a spirit it says to you hello I'm in a bad mood I'm hot I'm fiery I'm peppery I'm aggressive I want to go to sleep I've got a better cereal note a bit of orange coming tying there but I've got also good damp leather and I've got baby sick and I need to go to sleep I need to sleep for at least 12 long years so when the illicit distillers started producing the whiskey they couldn't wait 12 years they could only wait 12 seconds that's why they put mint sugar fame into the whiskey then they drank it and within a half an hour they were dead because they learned the hard way they were only distilling it maybe once not twice it's only when it is still twice to do then purify it so that's the beginning of it okay that's the beginning of it there just to look at it just to show you all right thank you alright so what you got here there's the beginning of the whiskey it's not been in the cask alright this is very important this has not been in the cast so therefore it's not taking any colour from the wood okay okay so because you know wood maturing the whisky is what it's all about nurturing it the same way now remember the new spirit it should be any children yes many children because two boys it girls boys boys old are they 40 yeah 1721 1721 all right if you get them what you need to do is blame fold yourself and then smell them on the hairline and you should be able to date the difference between the two because when a mother is actually holding a baby she's real actually going to kiss her kiss their children on the hairline and that's where the smell is it's the same with the spirit here that's the basic smell that will remain all the way through the malt whisky and you'll see it reflected in this here all right putting on the wrong way so this is this is Dalmore this is Dalmore okay this is 12 years old this is 70 percent American white oak it's been matured 70 percent American white oak 30 percent sherry wood from her Ethel a frontier okay so there because the sherry wood is going to nurture it's going to soften it down it's going to give it a softness or roundness that's been in the cast front least finishing period of at least two years so it's going to have an influence like your pair fume that you're wearing today they'll have 26 different nuances it's the same with a whiskey so once again you put it in the glass put it on the floor okay and then you make sure you come back to it and smell it again hello how are you and they are quite well and what you're going to see here you're going to see an extension so here if you smell this one first and then smell this one here secondly and what you'll see is the softness coming through but really notes like orange citrus marzipan these are all connotations reflected in the Dalmore distillery okay okay how about just have a smell remember do it slowly bring it up to your nose smell it and pull away if your eyes go funny you've got a smaller even very gently just so just make sure you we're looking like that right pull away don't be thing me all right so you just come back again that's it that's better it's just even even slower this time even slower and then bend move around and just search into it all right okay so this time I want you to block off your memory I want you to think not off the strength of the whiskey but the inner warmth the heaviness all of the whiskey when you come up there second time so what you're going to see is stones you're going to see cereal but you're going to see that sort of damp leather blotting paper cotton wool and then you're going to see some baby sick towards the end so just think about these things as connotations just the baby sick you know what baby sick remember in the shoulder all these times are going down nappies and everything else yeah okay that's the beginning when you smell the bus queue just is what you said when you smell it like that you'll see it's very hot fire is peppery it needs to settle down it needs to mature it needs the warmth of the wood not just any wood American white oak or all arose with sherry bucks from her elephant ear that's what we'll mold it so when you notice that second one here you'll see it very soft now see how it's developed it's softened down it's easier but when do you drink and how'd you drink it that's the problem so what you need to do is you need to take water I don't care where you are in the world you must take up the water with your middle finger in the you know why because five times over the world when I go like that she part of my finger how can you do that because barman sometimes don't pay attention and you get warm water so you must make sure you get cool water always you take the whiskey you reduce it down to 38 percent alcohol still water alright that will actually bring it up but what we'll do is actually begin to release more flavours a little bit make it more palatable so this is Delmore 12 years old so what you do is you scroll around and you give it 12 seconds your palate mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm then you wait wait you wait you wait and let come up if I hadn't put the right amount of water in it your eyes would flicker so when you and I having a drink together and you put it in your mouth and you drink you should in fact have the amount of water that suits your palate as soon as it does that you'll become more acceptable because if it's not the right strength if it's too strong your eyes will flicker you're not paying attention to my conversation you're like you're thinking the whiskey but people don't know that so you need to always keep it them out mmm-hmm the worst thing is this here it's when people say well let's have let's have a doll more you go like that and then the next thing they say well two scotch whiskey and then you hear this noise and you say scotch on the rocks but who asked you to put ice in it so well that's what he always do did you in Australia America they do it in France Spain and they know got scotch and rocks once when he come to drinking he got you got all the ice floating around now the olden days there was no ice they didn't have any ice so they went to the riverbeds and they took the rocks from the railroads and put it in the whiskey and that's why we got scotch on the rocks but if you in fact and you know having a drink and you hear this noise cling cling cling make sure you always take the barman and check that out the real mrs. ko but that's what you need to do you need to do that alright so that's that's the best way to drink it is always to take it with a little still water keep it in the mouth hold it to it chew it chew it now I'm going to show you something very

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Length: 8min 54sec (534 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 10 2010