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While looking for goodies for you Whisky-lovers out there I ran (surfed) into this “wheel†of Single Malt classification from 1989. I found it quite exiting and I hope you do too.
“It is a classification of 109 distilleries producing single malt Scotch whisky, based on mathematicians Lapointe and Legendre’s statistical study of Jackson’s 1989 tasting notes. (At the time of their analysis, the authors had information on 109 of the 119 distilleries above.) The dendrogram is best considered as a tree, viewed from the top down. Thus the trunk is the centre point from which the branches emanate. Two whiskies (leaves) which join near the outer edge are similar in taste, e.g., Glenlivet and Glendullan at 4 o’clock. The closer to the centre a path between two whiskies travels, the less similar they are.
The two main branches from the centre divide the spirits into two classes: 69 ‘full-gold-coloured, dry-bodied and smoky’ whiskies (A-H) and 40 ‘amber, aromatic, light-bodied, smooth palate and fruity finish’ whiskies (I-L). Further out, 12 intermediate branches are labelled A-L; these are the 12 similarity classes indicated overleaf. Drawn from data in F.-J. Lapointe and P. Legendre.”
Courtesy of THE MAN’S ALMANACK
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I am not sure what this one means, looks a bit like some kind of chart for use in arcane magic arts, but it is strangely beautiful.