PAUL JOHN'S MITHUNA 3RD BEST WHISKY OF THE YEAR : JIM MURRAY 2021

WORLD'S LEADING WHISKY GUIDE JIM MURRAY'S PICKS

Whisky of the Year

Alberta Distillers, Alberta Premium Cask Strength Rye

Whisky of the Year Runner Up

Buffalo Trace, Stagg Jr. Straight Bourbon 13th Edition, 8 YO

Whisky of the Year 2nd Runner Up

Paul John Distillers, Mithuna: Mithuna is produced by Paul John Distillers, a Goa based Indian company. It’s scheduled to be released in western markets in November 2020. Murray likens drinking the whisky to making love, noting that the whisky offers “extraordinary intensity, complexity and beauty,” with notes of “chocolate, molasses, dates, ultra-delicate spices, all slightly leavened by passion fruit.”                                                              

The end of the experience is like after you have just made love and you are unable to speak or move while your senses get back into some kind of normality. … This is a whisky to devour… while it devours you.

SCOTCH SINGLE MALT

Scotch Whisky of the Year:          Glen Grant, 15 YO Batch Strength 1st Edition

Scotch Vatted Malt of the Year:    Compass Box, The Spice Tree

Scotch No Age Statement (NAS): Glen Grant, Rothes Chronicles Cask Haven

Scotch 10 Years and Under Multiple Cask: Octomore Edition 10.3, 6 YO, Islay Barley (Category Winner)

Scotch 11-15 Years Single Cask:  Caol Ila, 15 YO, Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseurs Choice

BLENDED AND GRAIN SCOTCH

Blended Scotch No Age Statement (Standard Pricing):   White Horse

Blended Scotch, No Age Statement, (Premium Pricing): Johnnie Walker, Blue Label Ghost and Rare Glenury Royal

Blended Scotch 5-12 YO:               Johnnie Walker, Black Label 12 YO

Blended Scotch 13-18 YO:             Ballantine’s 17 Y0

Blended Scotch 19-25 YO :            Dewar’s Signature, 25 YO

Scotch Grain Whisky of the Year :  The Perfect Fifth, Cambus 1979