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Is Music the Key to Understanding Bourbon?

Spirit Sounds

We asked whiskey makers around the country to tell us what their spirits taste like by comparing them to music.

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Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast

How do you describe your favorite spirits? As having notes of vanilla, honey, or baking spices? Or, if you fancy your palate more advanced than that, perhaps you say marzipan, hibiscus, or Limousin oak from a charming corner of France where time moves more slowly.

Whatever the case, tasting notes—found in...

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