Why blend? Exploring the art and science of blending

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Humans are the blending species, says philosopher of the senses Barry Smith, but what makes some blends work when others don't?

will be available onlineThe greater the number of elements, the harder it is to achieve overall balance and harmony, where all the parts make a contribution and no one element dominates the others. It may surprise you to learn that in a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label whisky there can be as many as 30 single malts in the blend, mixed together with grain whisky.

The secrets of blending are built up through a lifetime of experience. Perfumers know when two aromas will stay separate and when they will fuse to become a single new based on the proportions we combine. These combinations of notes, known as an"accord" - the French word for chord - which in turn becomes yet another ingredient to go into the blend.

But why blend in the first place? Why not stick to the best quality ingredients without combining them?The urge to blend has been opposed by an equally strong urge for purity. There are passionate advocates of single-leaf teas, single-cask malt whiskies and single-vineyard champagnes, who argue that only here will we find true quality.

"Shakespeare wouldn't have been very interesting if he'd said, 'I can't write a play about Hamlet because he's a Dane,'" he says. At the same time Appiah is keen to stress that the importance of origins has been unduly neglected by some cosmopolitans."I like what Gertrude Stein said about this. She said, 'What good are roots if you can't take them with you?' And I think all of us in fact can claim connection back down many branching routes through the family tree to many different places," he says.

 

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