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Punditry Periodic Table of Whisky

Every bottle on the shelf, laid out like the elements. Each row is a house, each column is years in cask, and the colour is the flavour family. Bottles with no age statement wait in the N column; tap to bring them out.

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How to read it

  1. Element number (top left): its place in reading order, region by region.
  2. Strength (top right): ABV as bottled.
  3. Symbol: house code plus age. Lagavulin earns a single letter; most houses take two. No age statement, no number.
  4. Atomic weight (bottom left): the usual price, what the bottle usually sells for. Switch to this week’s price in the toolbar.
  5. Review score (bottom right), out of 100, where there is one.
  6. Colour: the flavour family it leans to hardest.
  7. Corner: the style. Black single malt or single pot still; charcoal blend, blended malt or grain; white bourbon, rye or Tennessee; none where the style isn’t recorded.

The N column

In the chemists’ table the lanthanides belong in the main grid but are pulled out below it, with a marked cell holding their place. Whiskies with no age statement work the same way: they belong to their house but have no age to put them in a column. Each house’s ✱ N cell holds their place, youngest end of the row; tap it and they open out beneath the house. Houses with nothing but no-age bottles sit at the foot of each region, their bottles laid along the row.

Flavour families