"A Classification of Pure Malt Scotch Whiskies"

Cafe Society
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This ought to be of interest to the single malt enthusiasts here. About ten or fifteen years ago, a couple statisticians got it into their heads to develop a classification of single malt whiskys based on their various characteristics and compare it to the geographical classification. You can read the results here, and see the original data here. Of course, I’m looking at this out of pure academic interest–it’s not the sort of thing you could use as a shopping list, right?

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Thanks for the interesting links.

There seems to be an error in the B.4. category in that they say Lagavulin is the best of its class with a Michael Jackson (not that MJ) score of 89 whilst in truth Talisker listed in the same group has a higher score of 90.
I hope that isn’t indicitive of other errors maybe in the statistics.

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[bump] Just because I refuse to let this thread die.

My own input? I absolutely adore single-malt scotch and single-barrel whiskey.

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Anyone know anywhere you can get Talisker Cask Strength unfiltered?

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Very interesting, thanks for posting this.

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Thanks for the link. Bippy, could the discrepancy be due to the use of Jackson 1989 vs a more recent edition? I was thinking about this because some single malts (e.g., Ardbeg) have changed significantly over the years.

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Could be if it weren’t for the fact they had listed Talisker as best of group A.3 Group C