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The ceremony announcing the winners of the prestigious Whisky Magazine Awards for America took place in New York City, on February 27th 2018.

The ceremony was chaired and presented by Rob Allanson (left), World chair of the Whisky Awards, and co-presented by Steve Beal (right), the chair of the American Whisky.

    

Distillers and whisky-related people from all over the country were gathered for the event.

HOW DOES THIS WORK?

The distilleries willing to send their whiskies to compete should ship samples at least four months in advance. For this contest, the last day was October 31 2017. All the samples are reviewed by category through a blind tasting by the expert panel. The panel of judges includes leading journalists, specialist drinks retailers and industry experts. Through the tasting process, some make it to the second round and are called the “category winners”. The shortlisted “category winners” whiskies are tasted blindly against each other by an extended panel, composed of the “round 1” panel and additional members, part of the leading distillers and experts from the whisky industry. The winner is then selected for each category.

THE WINNERS

11 categories were represented, and all winners were called on stage to receive the award from the hands of the chairman, Rob Allanson and the sponsor Glencairn Crystal, represented for these awards by Martin Duffy.

1- BEST BOURBON

1792 Full Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

With Gary Lynn (Sazerac)

 

2- BEST AMERICAN SINGLE MALT

Westland Peat Week 2017

With Matthew Hofmann (Westland)

3 – BEST AMERICAN SINGLE CASK SINGLE MALT

Balcones Texas Single Malt, Single Barrel

  

With, Jared Himstedt (Balcones)

4 – BEST BLENDED MALT

Virginia Distilling Company, Port Cask Finish Virginia Highland Whiskey

5 – BEST BLENDED

Breckenridge Distillery, PX Sherry cask finish

   

6- BEST CORN

Balcones, True Blue 100

   

7 – BEST GRAIN

Ransom, Rye-Barley-Wheat

  

8 – BEST RYE

291 Colorado Rye Whiskey Aspen Stave finish

9 – BEST POT STILL

Ransom, The Emerald

10 – BEST WHEAT

Bainbridge battle Point, Two island Islay cask wheat whiskey

11 – BEST FLAVORED

Heritage Distilling Company, Brown Sugar Bourbon

 

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Discussing with some of the winners and attendees.

 

   

 

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