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Malt Maniacs Awards 2013 Published

By Miguel in Whisky

Malt Maniacs Awards or MMA is perhaps the very best whisky awards out there because it is done by a group of amateur whisky lovers ( I hate experts ) that taste 100-150 samples of whiskies blind. So they taste the whiskies, they score them and they submit the result to the organizer who run run some statistics on them and create a mean score from all the judges.

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Basically whiskies over 90 gets a Gold Medal, between 85 and 90 gets a Silver Medal and below that and over 80 gets a Bronze Medal. It is a very rare honor to get a Gold Medal and unfortunately most of them are special single cask whiskies for a group of persons.

So, here are the winner…

As usual, most of the crazy stuff isn’t indexed. I will add it on the following days.
This year Gold Medals are Karuizawa 1973/2013 (67.7%, Number One Drinks, Ex-Sherry Oak, C#1607, 138 Bts.), Kavalan ‘Solist’ (57.8%, OB, NAS, Sherry Cask, C#S06082, 2013*), Glenfarclas 1989/2012 (56.6%, OB The Family Casks, C#11046, 591 Bts.) and Yamazaki 1993/2012 (57.5%, OB for LMDW, Sherry Butt, C#3T 70070, 300 Bts.)

Other Malt Maniacs Winners

You can check last year ( and other years ) winners at http://www.awardrobeofwhisky.com/awards/Malt-Maniacs-Awards.

I am just crossing my fingers so I don’t have to spend more money on whisky this month… I am already on the emergency budget. If you don’t have a deep pocket, much like me, you may want to check this list of the Ten Best whiskies for this Christmas.

You can read the original listing here: http://www.maltmaniacs.net/awards/



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