Dave Broom only needed 15 minutes to host one of the most impressive tastings I’ve ever attended. The award-winning author and whisky writer kicked the experience off by having his audience, from the 2019 edition of The Whisky Show in London, don wireless headphones. Then he handed us notecards with words such as ‘salty’, ‘sweet’, ‘bitter’, ‘metallic’, and ‘mineral’ before serving us a dram of Talisker Storm.
As we tasted the whisky, he played a variety of musical soundscapes into the headsets. As he played each track, we silently held up the cards we felt most appropriate to express the aromas and flavours we were experiencing from the whisky. Despite the fact that we were all drinking the same liquid throughout the tasting, with every track he played we each held up different
