I cannot fathom enjoying whiskey "tasting."
I don't drink whiskey anymore, but when I did I'd wager that I drank more of it than most of this blog put together. It all tastes like crap. All of it. If it didn't eff me up, I would have never drank it. All whiskey also tasted better with Diet Coke mixed with it, except Scotch. That tasted like crap in Diet Coke too.
Now that I don't drink anymore, if someone came up to me and handed me a whiskey that allegedly tasted like the finest whiskey in the world, but it contained zero intoxicants, there is zero chance in the world that I would drink it. LOL.