I do not believe that anyone can taste the difference between most whiskeys. Its all pretension and fakery. In a truly blind taste test, no one can distinguish 21-year old single-malt Glen Goniff scotch from 4-year old mass-produced Old Zeyde bourbon. All whiskey tastes like nail polish remover, and the only reason people drink it is to be polite, sociable or intoxicated … not that there’s anything wrong with that.
According to a passage in “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” Mr. X opined that African Americans prefer scotch, so if you expect them at your simcha, be sure to have some available.