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Good article sheds a bit of light on the process:
British whisky expert still convinced Crown Royal rye 'a masterpiece' - Manitoba - CBC News
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The first thing he looks for when tasting a whisky is what's wrong with it.
"If you find there's not that many negatives, or none at all, you then start looking at how that whisky is evolving through the temperature. I don't use water, I don't use ice, I use body temperature and watch the way it oxidizes and comes through," Murray said.
"It's patience and it's knowledge and that ability to listen to what it is saying."
After that, he marks it out of 25 in each of four categories: the nose (aroma), taste, finish and balance.
Murray said the Northern Harvest Rye's 97.5 ranking was put through the typical tests and stood up to snuff.
"It's equal to the highest score I've ever given to any whisky. It meant that I couldn't find any faults in it as such. The nose got 25 out of 25."
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