3 Star Hedonism

An Islay whisky is the only UK spirit ever to be awarded a maximum 3 star rating by a judging panel of Europe’s finest chefs.
At a black tie dinner held in Brussels tonight The Superior Taste Award was awarded to the Bruichladdich 12 year old Single Malt by the International Taste & Quality [...]

Glen Moray Mountain Oak wins two

Glen Moray Mountain Oak has now won two accolades since its launch at the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival (SSWF) in May of this year.

Firstly, it was awarded runner-up at the SSWF awards in the 13-20 years category. 

News just in is that it has also won a Gold Medal, Best in Class for the [...]

Winners at the Spirit of Speyside

The popular annual festival, The Spirit of Speyside has come to an end. Reports from Press & Journal says the festival was a great success this year.
During the festival awards was of course presented. This year the winners were Glenlivet Distillery for 12 years and under, Cragganmore Distillery for 13 to 18 years and Glen [...]

Buxrud’s “The Rare Malts” awarded in Beijing.

The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards took place in Beijing, China on
April 7, 2007.
«Rare Malts» by Ulf Buxrud won «Best Spirits Book in the World » this year. It is
published by Quiller Books. The author is a Swedish pillar of the International Wine
and Food Society, and is an expert of the facts, figures and taste [...]

Last minutes tips for you that didn’t get tickets for the Chicago Whisky Fest

This weekend, the Chicago WhiskyFest goes of with a bang. It’s sold out.
However! If you’re in Chicago and are into Whisky, There are alternatives. Time Out wrote an article yesterday giving you some tips where the party really is. They even claim the real Fest is in the bars and not the venue. Well it’s [...]

San Fransisco Competition - Final Resuuuuuuults

The 2007 San Fransisco World Spirit Competition has ended. A long list of Whiskies and Whiskeys has achieved their awards.
Notable from this years competition was that Beam Global had it’s bests performance ever with 31 medal wins. Among Beam’s winners were Dalmore, Laphroaig, Jim Beam, Canadian Club and Baker’s.
In the Packaging Category The Glenrothes and [...]

Benromach Organic Speyside Single Malt from Gordon & MacPhail has been shortlisted in the Scottish Food and Drink Excellence Awards.

Shortlisted products in the retail, foodservice and healthy eating categories from over 100 entries were assessed this week (3 April) by a panel of industry experts at Tesco’s Product Assessment Centre in Perth.
The Benromach Organic, bronze winner in the Organic Food Awards last year, was shortlisted in the categories; Retail - Drink – Alcoholic and [...]

The Whisky Magazine has announced the 2007 World Whiskies Awards Winners.

Check out the Scottish winners from Whisky Magazine Icons of Whisky Awards 2007 with the interesting Distiller of the Year, Arran, to start with. It’s always nice to see that not just the old and establish distillers wins competitions and awards all the time, don’t you think?! Both Michael Jackson and Dave Broom have [...]

Watch out for the Winners

WhiskyMag will announce the winners of Icons of Whisky 2007 at 11:30pm (local UK time) on Thursday 1st March
This is the link you need:
http://www.whiskymag.com/awards/icons_of_whisky/
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Smokehead smokes the competition at W&SDA

The new Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky from Ian Macleod Distillers has been awarded the Design of the Year Trophy at the Wine & Spirit Design Awards 2007 (W&SDA).
Following last month’s announcement of Smokehead as a Gold Medal winner in the Spirit category of the W&SDA, Smokehead has now won the overall Design of the [...]

American Icons of Whisky 2007

The first American Icons of Whisky awards were handed out during a prestigious lunch in Louisville, Kentucky recently. The international awards recognise the very best people and places in the whisky industry. This year the judging process changed, with regional heats in the US, Japan, Ireland and Scotland. Each regional heat will be voted on [...]

38 years of waiting is worth it. (says some)

Apparently good things comes to those who wait.
This is a photo of The 38yr Limited Edition Balblair. Made a visit to their website and noted some fine awards for this one. Wish I had one in my collection.
The prizes:
2006
International Wine & Spirit Competition
Gold Best in Class
International Spirits Challenge
Gold
2005
International Wine & Spirit Competition
Gold Best in [...]

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