Malt Maniacs Awards 2011

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 Cask Innovation Award

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  Lochside 1965 Single Blend / 46 Year Old / Adelphi Blended Whisky
  

• Premium Non Plus Ultra Award

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  Suntory Yamazaki Sherry Cask
  

• Premium Best Natural Cask Award

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  Lagavulin 12 year Special Reserve
  £85.16

• Premium Best Cask Innovation Award

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  Amrut Portonova
  £83.25

• Premium Best Peated Malt Award

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  Breath of Islay 12 Year Old 1999 (Adelphi)
  

• Premium Thumbs Up Award

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  Hakushu Heavily Peated
  

• Daily Dram Non Plus Ultra Award

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  Lagavulin 16 year
  £47.95

• Daily Dram Best Natural Cask Award

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  Talisker 10 year
  £34.99

• Daily Dram Best Cask Innovation Award

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  Aberlour 16 Year Old / Double Cask Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £43.95

• Daily Dram Best Peated Malt Award

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  Big Peat Small Batch Cask Strength
  

• Daily Dram Thumbs Up Award

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  Kilchoman Spring Release 2011
  

• Gold Medal

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  Glen Grant 1952 / Gordon& Macphail Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £2,120.00
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  Lochside 1965 Single Blend / 46 Year Old / Adelphi Blended Whisky
  

• Silver Medal

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  Aberlour a'Bunadh Batch 30
  
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  Amrut Portonova
  £83.25
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  Benriach 1976 / 34 Year Old / Cask #6942 Speyside Whisky
  
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  Benromach 30 Year Old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  
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  Black Bull 40 Year Old (Duncan Taylor)
  
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  Breath of Islay 12 Year Old 1999 (Adelphi)
  
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  Brora 30 Year Old / 8th Release / Bot. 2010 Highland Whisky
  £1,000.00
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  Bunnahabhain 1979 (Berry Brothers and Rudd)
  
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  Bunnahabhain 25 Year Old
  £319.20
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  Bunnahabhain 31 Year Old 1979 (Adelphi)
  
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  Caol Ila 1997 / Distillers Edition Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  
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  Compass Box Flaming Heart 10th anniversary
  
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  Cragganmore 21 Year Old (2010 Release)
  
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  Dailuaine 27 year Master of Malt
  
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  Glenallachie 35 Year Old / Sherry Cask Speyside Single Malt Whisky
  
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  Glendronach 21 year Parliament
  £99.95
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  Glenfarclas 25 year
  £119.95
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  Glenglassaugh 1967 Manager's Legacy / Walter Grant Speyside Whisky
  
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  Glenlivet 14 Year Old 1996 Cask 105516 - Cask Strength Collection (Signatory)
  
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  Hakushu Heavily Peated
  
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  Kilchoman Spring Release 2011
  
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  Lagavulin 12 year Special Reserve
  £85.16
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  Lagavulin 16 year
  £47.95
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  Lagavulin 1993 / Distillers Edition Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  
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  Laphroaig 16 Year Old 1995 Cask 44 - Cask Strength Collection (Signatory)
  
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  Laphroaig 1990 / 21 Year Old / The Whisky Agency Islay Whisk
  
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  Linkwood 1984 / 27 Year Old / Liquid Sun Speyside Whisky
  
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  Master of Malt 40 year Speyside
  
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  Mortlach 20 Year Old 1990 Cask 6069 - Cask Strength Collection (Signatory)
  
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  Suntory Yamazaki Sherry Cask
  
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  Talisker 30 Year Old / Bot. 2010 Island Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £650.00
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  Talisker 57º North
  £68.02
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  Tomatin 1976 / 34 Year Old / Sherry Cask / Liquid Sun Speyside Whisky
  
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  Tomatin 1976 / 34 Years Old / Sherry Cask / Whisky Agency Speyside Whisky
  
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  Tomatin 30 Year Old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  

• Bronze Medal

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  Aberlour 16 Year Old / Double Cask Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £43.95
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  Aberlour 18 Year Old
  £84.38
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  anCnoc 16 Year Old
  
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  Auchroisk 20 Year Old (2010 Release)
  £135.00
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  Balblair 1989 Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £97.79
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  BenRiach 12 Year Old Horizons
  
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  Benromach 2001 / 9 Year Old / Cask Strength Speyside Whisky
  
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  Big Peat Small Batch Cask Strength
  
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  Bunnahabhain 12 year
  £37.89
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  Caol Ila 12 year
  £37.56
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  Clynelish 14 year
  £34.95
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  Clynelish 1993 Oloroso Sherry - Distillers Edition
  
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  Connemara Turf Mor
  
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  Cutty Sark 12 year Emerald
  £23.80
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  Cutty Sark 18 year
  
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  Deanston 12 year
  £36.43
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  Deanston Virgin Oak Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £35.44
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  Edradour 2003 / Bourbon Cask / Second Release Highland Whisky
  
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  Edradour 2003 / Burgundy Cask Matured Highland Single Malt Whisky
  
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  Edradour Ballechin Bourbon Cask Matured
  
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  Glen Moray 24 Year Old 1986 Cask 2306 - Rare Auld (Duncan Taylor)
  
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  Glen Ord 12 Year Old Highland Single Malt Whisky
  £120.00
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  Glendronach 12 year
  £38.95
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  Glenfarclas 15 year
  £50.44
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  Glenkinchie 12 Year Old / 1L Lowland Single Malt Scotch Whis
  £34.20
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  Glenkinchie 1996 Amontillado Finish - Distillers Edition
  
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  Glenkinchie 20 Year Old (2010 Release)
  £145.00
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  Great King Street Artisan Blended Whisky
  £28.24
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  Greenore 18 year
  
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  Hakushu 12 year
  £74.62
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  Kavalan Single Malt
  
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  Kilbeggan 18 Year Old Irish Whiskey Blended Irish Whiskey
  
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  Kornog Taouarc'h eilvet malt
  
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  Ledaig 10 year
  £37.45
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  Longmorn 16 year
  £47.15
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  Longrow 14 Year Old Campbeltown Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £120.00
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  Mortlach 16 year
  
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  Oban 14 year
  £45.79
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  Old Pulteney 17 Year Old Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  £65.42
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  Peat Chimney 12 Year Old (Wemyss Malts)
  
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  Penderyn Aur Cymru
  £12.85
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  Penderyn Peated
  £42.83
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  Penderyn Portwood Welsh Single Malt Whisky
  £56.95
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  Scapa 16 Year Old Island Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  
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  Springbank 18 Year Old Campbeltown Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  
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  Talisker 10 year
  £34.99
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  The Glenlivet 18 Year Old
  
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  The Glenlivet Master Distiller's Reserve 1l
  £51.91
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  Tobermory 10 year
  £45.43
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  Tobermory 15 Year Old Island Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  
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  Tomatin Decades
  
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  Yamazaki Bourbon Barrel Japanese Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  

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