Cereal
Malt, bread, dough, and porridge.
maltbiscuitporridgebarley sugarsourdoughpopcorn
Pick the group that is closest to what you notice. The lists below give you more specific words.
A group helps you find related words. It does not claim one cause for a note.
Malt, bread, dough, and porridge.
Fresh, dried, cooked, tropical, and citrus fruit.
Flowers, herbs, leaves, grass, and tea.
Peat smoke, ash, medicine, wet stone, and sea air.
Leather, tobacco, nuts, coffee, wax, soil, and savory food.
Struck matches, rubber, metal, onion, and fireworks.
Honey, vanilla, caramel, toffee, cream, and chocolate.
Pepper, cinnamon, clove, ginger, and licorice.
Oak, cedar, resin, sherry, wine, and toasted wood.
Peated uses the Wine & Spirit Education Trust's 2025 tasting guide as its main source. We also looked at tasting wheels for Scotch, American whiskey, and Canadian whisky. None uses these exact 9 groups.
Some guides put words together because they can have the same cause. Peated puts words together when they smell or taste alike. One note can have more than one cause.
Use the wheel to describe one tasting. Choose words from any part of it, in any order.
A bottle page can also show one broad flavor, such as Light & Delicate or Heavily Peated. That broad flavor does not limit the words you can choose.