Just opened another new bottle of Laphroaig 10, hoping that it would not have the same faults as the one I opened about a month ago. It does. Laphroaig 10 has become bland. The heavy, pungent peat-attack of yore is nowhere, instead I get more vanilla, grapes and citrus. Peat is here, but nowhere near as powerful.
Salvation, however, is not far. I'm reaching for the Cask Strength. O Lord, please make sure they don't f*ck up that one, too!
Nope, just that your taste buds have matured.
Regards, hawk
[-x-] wrote:Nope, that's not the case. I've made side by side tasting of older 10's and new ones, the difference is clearly noticeable.
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Dunno, but the one I bought recently isn't quite what I remembered from 20 yrs ago... That assaulted my taste buds - could be that they are more seasoned nowadays... Anders
And that is the case for the prosecution?
funny -- I'd always read that olfactory memories were among the deeper-seated. there's certainly no mistaking the ability of the human memory to react many years after a poisoning to the same flavor profile (ask anyone who drank way too much of a particular liquor in his teens). indeed, taste memory would intuitively be an evolutionary advantage.
then again, I freely admit I haven't done any real research. do you have some good papers to which to point me for an overview of the academic thinking on olfactory memory and discrimination?
You should find many papers documenting the loss of taste receptors with age. It is universally acknowledged.
-- Larry
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