More than 150 whiskies, three rounds of judging and there can be only five...we reveal the winners
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Whisky Magazine Panel
Rob Allanson
Thierry Benitah
Dave Broom
Charles Maclean
Annabel Meikle
Martine Nouet
Dominic Roskrow
Keir Sword
The quest is a theme often found in literature and when we set off on our whisky quest the...
By Rob Allanson
from Issue 63 published on 20/04/2007
How good are the independent bottling companies? We decided to find out in our biggest ever tasting – more than 175 entrants in 24 categories,judged by nine judges over seven weeks. Dominic Roskrow reports
Every two years Whisky Magazine holds its Best of the Best competition, when the best 40 whiskies from the previous two years are tasted by about 100 judges in Tokyo, Dublin,Kentucky,Glasgow and London.
And every two years we have the debate: should independent bottlers be included?
Arguments in f...
By Dominic Roskrow
from Issue 50 published on 09/09/2005
This is the third time we have held the Best of the Best. But as Dominic Roskrow reports, this is the biggest and most ambitious attempt yet to find the world's best whiskies
Almost 60 great whiskies tasted blind in five countries by more than 100 tasters over four months... the Best of the Best event in 2005 can rightly claim to be the most ambitious whisky tasting ever held.
And the results reflect just how thoroughly we searched for the finest products from America, ...
By Dominic Roskrow
from Issue 46 published on 10/3/2005
Compiling a top 90 best Scottish malts list is as ambitious a project as this magazine has ever undertook. Dominic Roskrowdescribes how it was done
A definitive list of the top malt whiskies in the world, counted down from number 90 to number one. Is such a thing possible?
There is a strong argument against, and without doubt we have set ourselves up to be shot down. After all, any such list is subjective, and what if something glaringly obvio...
By Dominic Roskrow
from Issue 39 published on 1/5/2004
Three continents, 40 outstanding whiskies, and more than 75 of the world’s best tasters – Best of the Best 2003 was an event of epic proportions. Dominic Roskrowexplains why, and how, it happened
The Best of the Best 2003 – what a nightmare. Or at least, three nightmares; nightmares that have recurred time and time again since we first
embarked on the whole, massive business.
Nightmare one: the room is full of Scotland’s finest whisky tasters, earnestly coming to grips with a weighty fligh...
By Dominic Roskrow
from Issue 30 published on 7/4/2003
Marcin Miller explains the objective of the Best of the Best tasting and how the 47 whiskies were selected, categorised and scored.
The objective of the Best of the Best Tasting was to come up with a consensus of opinion. The scoring scale is based on that used in the magazine: marks are awarded out of ten and a score of five out of 10 indicates that what has been sampled is, in fact, whisky. The whiskies were selected from the ...
By Marcin Miller
from Issue 16 published on 16/6/2001
David Stirk, one of Whisky Magazine's tasting panel representatives in Edinburgh, explains what it was like to be part of this definitive tasting and how he and his fellow panelists managed to surivive!
The names of the panellists read like a Who’s Who of the Scotch whisky industry. It was a bold attempt to bring competitors from almost every whisky company into a situation where they were openly grading not only the competitors whiskies but also their own. We were cordially seated by Marcin Miller...
By David Stirk
from Issue 16 published on 16/6/2001
