The Whisky Tasting Journal is your essential companion for exploring and documenting the world of whisky. Whether you’re a casual enthusiast or a dedicated whisky lover, this journal helps you record, compare, and refine your tasting experiences with professional-quality tools.
This whisky tasting journal is created in Scotland for people who want to pay closer attention to what they enjoy, without rigid rules or pretentious language.
Inside, you’ll find 85 structured tasting scorecards suitable for a wide range of whisky styles, from Scotch and bourbon to rye, Irish, Japanese, and other world whiskies shaped by different production methods, cask types, and regional characteristics. Each scorecard provides space to record essential details such as name, type, distillery, region, age, ABV, price, appearance, nose, palate flavour impressions, finish, and overall assessment, alongside a single integrated flavour checklist made up of 44 named tick-box flavour prompts. These prompts allow you to quickly mark what stands out while building a clear visual record to sit alongside your written notes.
The journal includes two separate whisky flavour wheel reference pages, designed to reflect the breadth of whisky styles. One wheel focuses on bourbon characteristics, showing warm and rich profiles including fruit, smoke, sweet vanilla/honey, caramel/toffee, spice, oak, nutty, and grain notes. The second wheel covers Scotch whisky profiles, showing refined and smoky characteristics including malt, smoke/peat, sweet honey, spice, wood/oak, fruit, floral/heather, and coastal/brine notes. The wheels are intended as orientation tools rather than prescriptions, helping you identify dominant characteristics without imposing a single “correct” interpretation.
To support confidence and clarity, the journal also includes straightforward explanations of whisky tasting terminology, covering concepts such as nose, palate, finish, body, and complexity. These explanations are practical and accessible, offering guidance without overwhelming detail or technical jargon.
Additional index and notes pages make it easy to track favourites, build wish lists, note gift ideas, and reflect on how your preferences develop over time. Whether used during distillery visits, whisky tastings, or quiet evenings at home, the layout supports intentional tasting while remaining flexible and personal.
Created in Scotland and using British spelling throughout, this journal reflects a thoughtful whisky culture while remaining suitable for recording whiskies from around the world. It is designed with balance in mind: structured enough to be useful, and open enough to stay personal.
This journal is part of The Tasting Journal Series, a growing collection of thoughtfully designed notebooks for whisky, gin, beer, coffee, and other craft beverages and artisan foods.
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