The Importance of Tasting Notes

Without tasting notes, MyWhiskyVault is just an inventory record management system. You might just as well use a spreadsheet for that (and I suspect many of you already do). Capturing Tasting Notes opens up a whole range of features for you, and contributes to the overall health of the system by providing anonymous tasting data to other users.

Some of the things that creating Tasting Notes will do for you are:

• Help you to derive your preferred flavor profile based on the combination of the flavor profiles you entered with the scores you entered for each whisky.

• Help you remember what a whisky tasted like the last time you tried it. Granted, you could keep "reminding yourself" at regular intervals, but eventually that bottle's going away to the "dead soldiers" bin and then you will forget what that whisky tasted like. We aren't getting any younger, and memories can get fuzzy quickly.

• Provide input data for your Find Me a Whisky feature.

• Finally, and most importantly, your tasting notes will help other users to possibly find their next favorite whisky. Remember, all tasting notes that are shared are anonymous. No one will be able to troll you, dissing your tasting notes, so be free honest with your own tasting notes to provide the community an accurate representation of the expression you just enjoyed.