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<\/a><\/p>\nI have been seriously enjoying whisky since early 2012. \u00a0I had tried Glenlivet before that (in think the year was 2005)\u00a0but did not enjoy it. \u00a0I probably drank it too fast, as a young twenty-something might do. \u00a0When I revisited whisky in early 2012, it was a very different experience. \u00a0A friend ordered me a glass of Macallan 18 at a wedding – a place where I was already a bit out of my element. \u00a0Circumstances made me approach it without my earlier expectations, and I found it pretty tasty.<\/p>\n
The next day I did a bit of research on the internet and found Ralfystuff<\/a>\u00a0and his blog at ralfy.com<\/a>. \u00a0I spent the day watching whisky videos, and I started researching which whiskies to buy first. \u00a0I chose Glenmorangie 10, Laphroaig 10, <\/strong>and Talisker 10<\/strong>. \u00a0That was the start of my journey. \u00a0Incidentally, if you are just starting out with whisky tasting, I highly recommend Glenmorangie 10 and Laphroaig 10 – but I’ll save the details of that for another blog post.<\/p>\n I am a software engineer by trade, so I tend to come at processes with a technical mind. \u00a0My workday is a mentally intense and fast-paced environment, and my specific job sometimes has me switching tasks a lot. \u00a0Whisky is the other side of that environment for me; slow, specific, and only as mentally challenging as I decide I need. \u00a0If I’ve had a long day, I’ll enjoy a less-pricey whisky (or no whisky at all), since I’m not able to focus on it completely. \u00a0If my day has been less tiring, I’m able to enjoy a more challenging whisky.<\/p>\n My profession has ingrained character traits in me that apply to Whisky tasting\u00a0(that I can think of right now) – precision and repeatability. \u00a0With respect to precision, I tend to require more precision in my descriptions of things (to the detriment of my friends), and I hope that will carry over somewhat to my tasting notes. \u00a0With respect to repeatability, my goal is to review each whisky under the same conditions (for example,\u00a0I will always taste from a Glencairn, adding water only after nosing and tasting neat).<\/p>\n In the end I hope to create reviews that can be compared (at least somewhat) side-by-side to help you make a decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My goal with this series of “Whisky Review Preamble”\u00a0posts is to paint a clear picture of me and my whisky tasting process so you can decide on how much value to place on my whisky marks. \u00a0A rating of 95 can only be useful if you trust the reviewer! Whisky and Me I have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","category-whisky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}