A collection of flavour profiles for 86 different Scotch whiskies on 12 different aspects.
Details
David Wishart was at one point, Chief Statistician at the Scottish Office of the Civil Service. When he retired, he focused on Whisky and wrote a book called "Whisky Classified". For the book, he collected tasting notes published about 86 different Scotch Whisky distilleries on a number of aspects and "distilled" them down to 12 flavor categories. Then each distillery's representative whisky was given a score on each category from 0-4, 0 meaning that that flavor is not represented in that whisky, 4 meaning that it is strongly represented.
The data set was later expanded to include more distilleries and crowd-sourced tasting notes, but, this data seems to be kept only in a for-profit Windows software which no longer exists. Dr. Wishart passed away in 2020, and there seems to be no way to access the larger data set.
This version of the data comes from the first edition of Dr. Wishart's book. An article describing some of his analyses with 185 single malts was published in 2009 in Significance.
The flavour categories are Body, Sweetness, Smoky, Medicinal, Tobacco, Honey, Spicy, Winey, Nutty, Malty, Fruity, and Floral.
The data also contains meta information giving each distillery's postcode, Longitude, and Latitude.
Examples
whisky
#> # A tibble: 86 × 16
#> Distillery Body Sweetness Smoky Medicinal Tobacco Honey Spicy Winey Nutty
#> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 Aberfeldy 2 2 2 0 0 2 1 2 2
#> 2 Aberlour 3 3 1 0 0 4 3 2 2
#> 3 AnCnoc 1 3 2 0 0 2 0 0 2
#> 4 Ardbeg 4 1 4 4 0 0 2 0 1
#> 5 Ardmore 2 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 2
#> 6 ArranIsleOf 2 3 1 1 0 1 1 1 0
#> 7 Auchentoshan 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 2
#> 8 Auchroisk 2 3 1 0 0 2 1 2 2
#> 9 Aultmore 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 2
#> 10 Balblair 2 3 2 1 0 0 2 0 2
#> # ℹ 76 more rows
#> # ℹ 6 more variables: Malty <dbl>, Fruity <dbl>, Floral <dbl>, Postcode <chr>,
#> # Longitude <dbl>, Latitude <dbl>