The Whisky Bible® Jim Murray Q&A with The Whisky Barrel- Parts 1 & 2

Last week the annual announcement of Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible® 2018 World Whisky of the Year was made.

The 2018 winner is Colonel E.H. Taylor 4 Grain Bottled in Bond Aged 12 years from Kentucky. In addition, Scotch and Irish whiskies made up the top three spots with Redbreast Aged 21 Years and Glen Grant Aged 18 Years Rare Edition.

We were also lucky enough to be given the chance to put some questions to Jim, picking his brains on this year’s Whisky Bible® and on the wider whisky industry, in an exclusive Q&A interview with The Whisky Barrel. Jim has plenty to say, so our Q&A is in two parts!

To find out how many whiskies Jim sampled for the new 2018 Whisky Bible; how close the two runners up came to stealing the top spot; what Jim’s biggest surprise was when tasting the whiskies this year; and where you might find Jim when he’s not sampling whisk(e)y, make sure to read our two part blog piece ‘The Whisky Bible® Jim Murray Q&A with The Whisky Barrel’ exclusively at The Whisky Barrel.

Both parts of the interview in full can be found at The Whisky Barrel blog at: www.thewhiskybarrel.com/blog

Jim Murray The Whisky Bible® Liquid Gold Awards

Also included in The Whisky Bible 2018® are some of The Whisky Barrel’s very own Exclusive Bottlings. And we are chuffed at the results, including two very high scoring whiskies in the Liquid Gold Awards section (94 points+). Two of these bottlings are still available exclusively at The Whisky Barrel (at the time of writing).

• Dumbarton 30 Year Old, 1987, The Sovereign, TWB 10th Anniversary Exclusive: 96.5 points
• Bowmore 15 year old 2001, Burns Malt®: 94 points
• Irish (Cooley) 13 year old, 2003 Exclusive Malts, TWB 10th Anniversary:  82.5 points.