malt maniacs awards 2014

Malt Maniacs Awards is a fierly independent whisky Awards where a team of twelve certified malt maniacs members taste blindly whiskies submited by distilleries and bottlers, with a limit of 3 per distillery.

There are heavy weights on the tasting panel with Serge Valentin and other great whisky bloggers.

The whiskies are scored between 0 and 100 and assigned a gold medal to those above 90 points which it is still a great rare honor. Those between 85 and 90 get a silver and those between 80 and 85 get a bronze medal. They also highlight daily drams whiskies, which it is a very nice thing as most of the gold medals are beyond a common budget.1

Check other whisky competitions at the Awards section.

• Ultra Premium Best Peated Malt Award

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  Benriach 1984 / 29 Year Old / Peated / Tawny Port Finish Speyside Whisky
  

• Ultra Premium Thumbs Up Award

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  Glengoyne 25 Year Old
  

• Daily Dram Best Natural Cask Award

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  Inchmurrin - Batch 1 (That Boutique-y Whisky Company)
  

• Daily Dram Thumbs Up Award

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  Lagavulin 16 year
  £47.95

• Silver Medal

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  Balblair 2000 / Sherry Cask #1343 / TWE Exclusive Highland Whisky
  
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  Benriach 1984 / 29 Year Old / Peated / Tawny Port Finish Speyside Whisky
  
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  Big Peat Blended Malt / Xmas Edition 2014 Islay Whisky
  
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  Convalmore 1977 / 36 Year Old / Bot.2013 Speyside Whisky
  
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  Darkness! Clynelish 16 Year Old Oloroso Cask Finish
  
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  Glengoyne 25 Year Old
  
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  Inchmurrin - Batch 1 (That Boutique-y Whisky Company)
  
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  Lagavulin 12 Year Old / Bot.2013 / 12th Release Islay Whisky
  £110.00
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  Lagavulin 16 year
  £47.95
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  Lark Cask Strength
  
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  Longrow Red / 11 Year Old / Port Cask Campbeltown Whisky
  
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  Nikka Taketsuru 21 year
  

• Bronze Medal

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  Aberlour 12 Year Old / Non Chill-Filtered Speyside Whisky
  £42.23
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  Aberlour A'bunadh / Batch 48 Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  
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  Armorik Millésime 2002 / Oloroso Sherry Cask #3261 French Whisky
  
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  Balblair 1990 - 2nd Release
  £103.00
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  Balblair 1999 / 2nd Release Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £61.55
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  Benriach 15 Year Old / PX Sherry Wood Finish Speyside Whisky
  
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  Bushmills 16 Year Old / 3 Wood Irish Single Malt Whiskey
  
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  Caol Ila 12 year
  £37.56
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  Cardhu 21 Year Old / Bot. 2013 Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £177.00
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  Chivas Regal 12 year
  £22.99
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  Chivas Regal 18 year
  £52.18
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  Clynelish 16 Year Old 1997 - Single Cask (Master of Malt)
  
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  Craigellachie 17 Year Old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £92.17
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  Craigellachie 23 Year Old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £384.23
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  Dalwhinnie 15 year
  £34.79
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  Deanston 19 Year Old 1994 - Single Cask (Master of Malt)
  
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  Glendronach 18 year
  £77.40
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  Glenglassaugh 45 Year Old 1968 (cask 1601) - Rare Cask Release Batch 1
  £1,746.49
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  Glenglassaugh Evolution
  £44.55
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  Glenglassaugh Torfa
  £42.73
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  Great King Street Artisan Blended Whisky
  £28.24
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  Hazelburn 10 Year Old Campbeltown Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £38.35
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  Kilkerran Work in Progress 6 / Bourbon Wood Campbeltown Whisky
  
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  Kilkerran Work in Progress 6 / Sherry Wood Campbeltown Whisky
  
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  Kornog Taouarc'h Pevared / Sauternes Casks / Peated Malt French Whisky
  
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  Lark Single Cask
  
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  Singleton of Dufftown 1985 / 28 Year Old / Bot.2013 Speyside Whisky
  £277.92
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  Singleton of Dufftown Sunray Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £39.77
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  Singleton of Dufftown Tailfire Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £38.14
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  Slyrs
  
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  Speyburn 10 year
  £30.83
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  Springbank 15 year
  £67.49
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  Talisker 10 year
  £34.99
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  Talisker Dark Storm
  £69.80
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  Teeling Silver Reserve 21 Year Old 1991 Single Malt
  
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  Tomatin Cu Bocan Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £34.43

• Supreme Champion

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  Kavalan Solist Sherry Taiwanese Single Malt Whisky
  £119.74

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