Announced and championed within the Jim Murray Whisky Bible 2010, the Liquid Gold Awards has been created to celebrate the highest quality and standard of whisky around the world, which means that only those scoring 94 points or more qualify. Representing only a small number of the 4,000 whiskies featured in the 2010 edition, these Liquid Gold whiskies are in Jim Murray's opinion the elite of our industry; the very best that can be found.

Duncan Taylor has been awarded the following Liquid Gold Awards:

	Rare Auld, Inverleven 1979
	Rarest of the Rare, Glenlochy 1980
	Rare Auld, Port Dundas 1973
	Rare Auld, Glengarioch 1988
	Rare Auld, Macallan 1988
	Rarest of the Rare, Glen Mhor 1975
	Rarest of the Rare, North Port 1981
	Rare Auld, Knockando 1980
	Rare Auld, North British 1978
	Rare Auld, Dallas Dhu 1981
	Rare Auld, Glen Grant 1970
	Rare Auld, Macallan 1987
	Black Bull 30yo Blend
	Auld Reekie Islay Malt
	Rare Auld, Glen Grant 1972
	Rare Auld, Caperdonich 1972
	Rare Auld, Glenugie 1981
	Rare Auld, Glen Garioch 1988
	Rare Auld, Dallas Dhu 14yo

To view the award certificates in PDF format, please click here (5M).

A full account of the 2010 World Whisky Awards can be found in Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2010. And with nearly 4000 tasting notes, including 946 of the very latest releases, the ‘Whisky Bible’ remains the definitive and most up to date guide available.

Black Bull 30yo received the Blended Bottling of the Year and a Bronze overall bottling of the year from the 2009 Scottish Field Whisky Challenge! 

A good reason to celebrate!

We have scooped the top prize in the annual Malt Maniacs Awards 2009.

This international competition, Pinnacle of The Worlds Spirits Awards, gave Duncan Taylor’s Glen Grant 36yo the overall top whisky – a massive achievement for a small Aberdeenshire-based whisky merchant.

Malt Maniacs are an International group of whisky lovers that represent thousands of whisky clubs throughout the world. The judging panel from over 10 major whisky drinking markets of the world represent the elite of spirit connoisseurs. Thousands of whiskies were blind tasted by eleven experts over the course of the awards, but it was Duncan Taylor that came out tops on the night.

In addition to the overall award, we were also awarded a gold medal again for the Glen Grant 36yo – attracting an unheard of 91 points from the judges and a further three silver medals and two bronze medals were awarded to Duncan Taylor Whiskies. We are all honoured at Duncan Taylor to have won this award from ‘people who know their whiskies’.

Duncan Taylor & Co have been awarded Jim Murray’s World Whisky Awards 2010 for best Scotch Grain of the Year! The winner of this prestigious award is our Rare Auld Grain bottling of North British 1978, cask Q247, 54.7%alc/vol.

Jim's notes and score are as follows:

To mark the sheer quality and standard of whisky making around the world Jim Murray has created a new Liquid Gold Award for all whiskies scoring 94 points and above. Representing 10% of all the whiskies featured in the ‘2010 Whisky Bible’ they are, says Murray “the elite; the very finest you can find on whisky shelves around the world. Rare and precious they are liquid gold”. Our North British 1978 has also received this award for 2010.

A full account of the 2010 World Whisky Awards can be found in Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2010. And with nearly 4000 tasting notes, including 946 of the very latest releases, the ‘Whisky Bible’ remains the definitive and most up to date guide available.

For the fourth year running, Duncan Taylor & Co have been awarded the Lowland Independent Bottler of the Year award! 2006, 2007, 2008 and now 2009!

These Independed Bottlers' Challenge awards are given by a panel of Industry experts based on blind tastings and therefore pure testament to the quality and consistently high standard of our whiskies. Each company was allowed to enter one whisky for each category which was then given a score out of 10. In each category a gold, silver and bronze medal was awarded for the top scoring whiskies. In each section a point system was applied to the medal winners and the highest scoring was awarded the section trophy.

The awards we won:

	Lowland Independent Bottler of the Year
	Gold - Lowland, Auchentoshan 1999
	Gold - Island, Highland Park 1991
	Bronze - Lowland, Inverleven 1978
	Bronze - Campbeltown, Springbank 1969

Icons of Whisky 2009 - Young Whisky Ambassador of the year awarded to Mark Watt, International Sales Executive for Duncan Taylor, at the Icons of Whisky Dinner on Thursday 26th February 2009 at The Hurlingham Club, London.

Excerpt from Whisky Magazine, Issue 78, page 18
Whisky Magazine decided it was time to honour the upcoming ambassadors who work and travel as hard as their more senior counterparts.

These are the young guns, the life blood of the industry to come, and we decided it was time they were recognised. The criteria was that they had to be under 35 years old.

You could say that Mark has the sort of job others envy as the sales executive for Duncan Taylor. The company distributes whisky across the world from its shop and bottling plant in Huntly. Part of Mark’s job is travelling the world hosting tasting sessions. Pretty much tailor-made for the 28 year old as he was born within the grounds of the Macallan distillery.

He has already visited Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Holland, France, Spain and Sweden and doubtless more counties will follow soon as he raises the profile of Duncan Taylor’s whiskies and the industry in general. With expert knowledge of hundreds of whiskies at his fingertips, Mark fended off stiff competition for this inaugural award.

It's now official - Duncan Taylor is the best Independent Bottler! Last Thursday it was announced, at the Awards Dinner in Glasgow, that we are Whisky Magazine's Icons of Whisky Scotland Independent Bottler of the Year 2009.

The awards are given by a panel of Industry experts based on blind tastings and therefore pure testament to the quality and consistently high standard of our whiskies. Each company was allowed to enter one whisky for each category which was then given a score out of 10. In each category a gold, silver and bronze medal was awarded for the top scoring whiskies. In each section a point system was applied to the medal winners and the highest scoring was awarded the section trophy.

The Independent Bottler who scored the most points across all categories was awarded an Icon of Whisky - Duncan Taylor & Co Ltd!

The awards we won:

	Icons of Whisky Independent Bottler of the Year 2009
	Lowland Independent Bottler of the Year
	Gold - Whisky Galore Auchentoshan 1999
	Gold - Rarest of the Rare Inverleven 1978
	Gold - NC2 Springbank
	Silver - Rare Auld Highland Park 1986
	Silver - NC2 Bowmore 1998

Duncan Taylor & Co Ltd received the highest accolade for their "Duncan Taylor Collection of Rare Auld Single Malt & Single Grain Scotch Whiskies" coming top in the drinks section for quality, presentation and marketing. Euan Shand Director said "To get this top award against stiff competition and to be recognised for our achievements I think is testament to the quality of not only the product but to the workforce of Duncan Taylor & Co who are all individually committed to providing service and products second to none."

Alan Gordon Director, Kirsty McLeod Sales Manager and Euan C Shand Director at the award ceremony.

Success for Duncan Taylor & Co Ltd in the prestigious "Grampian Food & Drink Innovation Awards". The company received 2 Gold Awards for Product Innovation and Export Innovation for our Range of Cask Strength Single Malt and Single Grain Scotch Whiskies. The judges stated that they were hugely impressed with the quality of the product, the innovative design and the marketing of the product.

The Duncan Taylor Cask Strength Range has also gone through to the final of the"Scottish Food & Drink Excellence Awards 2003" hosted by Scottish Enterprise and The Royal and Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland.