Waaaah! I’m all confused now!
My mates have been trying to get me into drinking decent scotch but whenever I try it neat I find that cos I’m not used to it I can’t taste anything more than the “burn”.
(They talk about ‘subtle peat notes and light honey finishes’ while I gasp and reach for a cooling glass of 7-up).
I was under the impression that with the finer single-malts some water was needed to “release” certain more complex features of the drink…
I don’t want to start on crappy “lesser” whiskies cos the are, well, crappy - but I don’t want to look like a complete prune by asking for water with my scotch.
Is is simply a matter of personal taste, or is it genuinely “bad form” to add a splash or two of decent spring water?
Oh yeah, and how much water are we talking about here? A tumbler full or literally just a dash?
Thanks!
– Quirm