Description

Most bourbon flavor wheels look like they were designed by a committee that had never actually tasted bourbon. This one was built from the glass up by someone who has — and who spent a lot of time frustrated by wheels that were either too vague to be useful or too clinical to be fun.

The Pourch Bourbon & Rye Flavor Wheel covers eight primary flavor categories — Sweet, Spice, Wood, Smoke, Fruit, Floral, Grain, and Nutty — and breaks each one down into subcategories and then specific descriptors. Caramel branches into butterscotch, toffee, brown sugar, vanilla bean. Smoke breaks into leather, wood smoke, tobacco, campfire. You get the idea. By the time you’ve worked your way to the outer ring, you’ve got over 100 specific descriptors to pull from when you’re trying to put language to what’s in your glass.

It prints to approximately 7 inches in diameter on a standard 8.5×11 page — big enough to read comfortably, sized right for a tasting mat or journal companion. Download, print, and you’re ready to go.

What you get: One high-resolution PDF, formatted for 8.5×11 paper, prints to approximately 7″ diameter.