/ 24 November 2000

THE TASTE-BUD TEST

Jim Beam: Smoother than some, it carries a bouquet of smoky spice given it by the oak barrels in which it is matured and has a full sweet flavour of burnt caramel and oaky vanilla.

Wild Turkey (left): This whiskey is aged for eight years in charred oak barrels to give it a full woody flavour.

Jack Daniel’s: It includes an additional process of filtering through ground maple charcoal to add flavour and deepen the colour, and to distinguish it from otherwise similar bourbons.