Tool
The Scotch Flavour Wheel
Eight flavour families, smoky to sweet. Tap one to see what it means in the glass — and a few bottles that show it off.
Tap a flavour family — smoky to sweet, from the centre out.
Sherried
Leans Speyside
Dried fruit, fig and cocoa — the rich, Christmas-cake note from sherry casks.
You’ll taste
Try a bottle
How to use it
Start in the middle and work outward. Pick the broad family your dram sits in — is it smoky or sweet, fruity or sherried? — then read the outer ring for the specific notes to look for. There are no wrong answers; your palate is your palate.
Want to go from “I think I like sherried” to an actual bottle? Run the Whisky Flavour Finder — four questions, three honest recommendations. Or take the wheel home: it’s available as a printable wall-art poster in two colourways.
Tools that go with this guide
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Whisky Flavour Finder
Four-question flavour quiz that recommends the right Scotch for your palate from 134 distilleries.
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Distillery Map
Interactive map of Scotland’s 134 distilleries, filterable by region, peat level and whether they’re open to visitors.
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Whisky Value Calculator
£-per-unit calculator that benchmarks any whisky against supermarket and specialist averages.