2011 – Whisky Boys – Whisky Awards – Our Shortlist

Jim and Nicola sat down last night with a couple of choice drams and made a start on our Whisky Awards for 2011, below you can see we have listed our nominations for Whiskies for 2011.

We have both agreed that it is not at easy as you may think, some of the one’s we have not included are indeed fabulous Whiskies.

Scotch Single Malt of 2011 – Nominations ( in no particular order ) are:-

Dalmore 15 Year Old

Isle of Arran 14 Year Old

Bowmore Darkest

Isle of Jura – Superstition

Aberlour – A’Bunadh

Highland Park 18 Year Old

Bruichladdich – The Laddie Ten

 

 

 

 

Scotch Blended Whisky of 2011 – Nominations ( in no particular order ) are:-

Naked Grouse

Whyte and Mackay – The Thirteen

Monkey Shoulder

Black Bottle

Ballantine’s 17 Year Old

 

 

Non-Scotch Single Malt Whisky of 2011 – Nominations ( in no particular order ) are:-

Redbreast 12 Year Old Cask Strength

Yamazaki 10 Year Old

Locke’s 8 Year Old

Connemara 12 Year Old Peated Single Malt

Nikka Red

Tyrconnell 10 Year Old – Sherry Finish

Non-Scotch Blended Whisky of 2011 – Nominations ( in no particular order ) are:-

Hibiki 12 Year Old

Kilbeggan – Distillers Reserve

Bushmills– Black Bush

Crown Royal

Powers Gold Label

Look soon for our full list of our Gold, Silver and Bronze Cork winners and maybe you will agree with our choices, if not you can drop us a line.