Le Nez Du Bourbon Bourbon Kit 12 Aromas

Embark on an olfactory journey to discover American whiskeys, the most famous of which is bourbon.

Twelve flavor bottles describe the aromatic universe of America's emblematic drink:

1 honey, 2 rose, 3 tobacco leaf, 4 cherry, 5 orange, 6 oak, 7 toasted almond, 8 caramel, 9 vanilla, 10 cinnamon, 11 mint, 12 black pepper.

They are classified into families on an aroma wheel that accompanies the book. An educational and illustrated book reveals the particularities of American whiskeys, still largely unknown outside their country of origin. What are their manufacturing secrets? What is a straight American whiskey? sour mash? Or again: what is the contribution of the American oak Quercus alba barrel?

Chris Morris, master distiller of Woodford Reserve, figure in the bourbon industry and creator more than twenty years ago of the aroma wheel of American whiskey, signs the preface.

Renowned journalists and authors, Hans and Becky Offringa, aka the whiskey couple, tell the story full of twists and turns of American whiskeys, from the arrival of the first European settlers to the current artisanal proliferation, through the dark hours of prohibition. .

A superb map of the United States lists 122 distilleries whose bourbons and whiskeys are classified by aroma in the last chapter of the book.