Best Single Barrel Pick Competition

Winner!

2025 Best in Category "Bourbon" Taste-Off

The following Taste-Off Winners will compete for "Bourbon of the Year."

Best Small Batch Bourbon

The Winner will go on to compete for "Bourbon of the Year."

O.H. Ingram River Aged 2024 Flagship Kentucky Bourbon

Peg Leg Porker Tennessee Straight Bourbon Whiskey Black Label

Barrel King #KM1 “King Me Boxed Set” – By Matt Porter

Best Wheated Bourbon

The Winner will go on to compete for "Bourbon of the Year."

Southern Star Paragon Bottled-In-Bond Wheated Bourbon

Castle & Key 7-year Cask Strength Wheated Bourbon

Old Fitzgerald 7 Year Old Bottled-In-Bond

Best Straight Bourbon

The Winner will go on to compete for "Bourbon of the Year."

Best Special Barrel-Finished Bourbon / Whiskey

The Winner will go on to compete for "Bourbon of the Year."

Chicken Cock Mizunara Bourbon

Lasso Motel Mizunara Cask Finish

Barrel King Fantasy “Nutella Turkey Bour-Rye” Hazelnut Liqueur, Cacao, and Apple Brandy Finished

Frey Ranch Single Barrel Distiller’s Reserve Aged in Malbec, Barrels #22-418

Best Blend of Straight Bourbon

The Winner will go on to compete for "Bourbon of the Year."

Dark Arts Barely Legal Bourbon – Small Batch, Cask Strength

Best Craft Bourbon

The Winner will go on to compete for "Bourbon of the Year."

Rieger Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Best 11+ Year Old Bourbon

The Winner will go on to compete for "Bourbon of the Year."

Old Grand-Dad Aged 16 Years

Seelbach’s Private Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon 15-Year Batch 001

1792 Aged 12 Years

Eagle Rare 17 Year-Old

2025 Best in Category "Bourbon" Final

The Winner will compete for Best in Show Whiskey.

Bourbon of the Year

2025 Winner!

2025 Best in Category "Rye" Taste-Off

The following Taste-Off Winners will compete for "Best Rye of 2025."

Best American Rye 11+ Years

The Winner will go on to compete for "Best Rye of 2025."

Circle City 12 Year Rye Whiskey

Redemptions 18 Year Rye

Sazerac Rye 18 Year

Best Special Barrel-Finished Rye

The Winner will go on to compete for "Best Rye of 2025."

K.LUKE Whiskey Company Small Batch Toasted Barrel, Barrel Strength Rye Batch 4

SirDavis American Whisky

Elijah Craig Toasted Rye

Best American Rye

The Winner will go on to compete for "Best Rye of 2025."

Pinhook Vertical Series Rye – 9 Year

Best Craft Rye

The Winner will go on to compete for "Best Rye of 2025."

Palmer’s Stretch Rye Whiskey

Best Blend of Straight Rye

The Winner will go on to compete for "Best Rye of 2025."

Kentucky Rambler Rye

2025 Best in Category "Rye" Final

The Winner will compete for Best in Show Whiskey.

Rye of the Year

2025 Winner!

Best American Whiskey

The Winner will compete for Best in Show Whiskey.

Lasso Motel 18 Year American Straight Whiskey

Frey Ranch Harvester Series Anniversary Edition (First Harvest)

Best American Single Malt

The Winner will compete for Best in Show Whiskey.

The QuintEssential Special Release – Wine Club

Best Irish Whiskey

The Winner will compete for Best in Show Whiskey.

Redbreast 18 Year Old Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey

Two Stacks The First Cut

Best Single Malt Scotch (Unpeated)

The Winner will compete for Best Scotch Whisk(e)y.

Glenmorangie The Original 12 Years Old

Glenmorangie The Quinta Ruban 14 Years Old

Glen Grant 25 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Best Single Malt Scotch (Peated)

The Winner will compete for Best Scotch Whisk(e)y.

Ardbeg Eureka!

Ardbeg Uigeadail

Ardbeg Wee Beastie

Best Blended Scotch

The Winner will compete for Best Scotch Whisk(e)y.

Chivas Regal 12 Year Old Blended Scotch Whiskey

2025 Best in Category "Scotch" Final

The Winner will compete for Best in Show Whiskey.

Scotch of the Year

2025 Winner!

2025 Best in Category Non Whiskey Taste-Off Results

The following Taste-Off Winners will compete for Best in Show.

Best Blanco Tequila

The Winner will compete for Best in Show Agave Spirit.

La Pulga 110 Blanco

Tequila Ocho Plata

Best Reposado Tequila

The Winner will compete for Best in Show Agave Spirit.

Tequila Ocho Reposado

Rey Coyote Reposado Tequila

Best Añejo Tequila

The Winner will compete for Best in Show Agave Spirit.

Tequila Ocho Anejo

DESNUDA Añejo Organic Tequila

Best Extra Añejo Tequila

The Winner will compete for Best in Show Agave Spirit.

El Diamante Del Cielo Tequila- Cielo X

El Mayor Tequila Extra Añejo

Best Mezcal

The Winner will compete for Best in Show Agave Spirit.

Mezcal Vago Elote

Santa Almagia Tobala Joven

Arbitrario Ensamble Cuishe-Barril

2025 Best in Category "Agave Spirit" Final

The Winner will compete for Best in Show White Spirit/Non Whiskey.

Agave Spirit of the Year

2025 Winner!

Best Aged Rum

The Winner will go on to compete for "Best Rum of 2025."

Myers’s Signature Cask Collection T.H. Handy

Rolling Fork 16 Year Trinidad Single Cask

Best Unaged Rum

The Winner will go on to compete for "Best Rum of 2025."

Cutwater Bali Hai White Rum

Best Spiced Rum

The Winner will go on to compete for "Best Rum of 2025."

Assassins Creed Spirits Edward Kenway Spiced Rum

2025 Best in Category "Rum" Final

The Winner will compete for Best in Show White Spirit/Non Whiskey.

Rum of the Year

2025 Winner!

Cutwater Bali Hai White Rum

BEST WHITE RUM

Rolling Fork 16 Year Trinidad Single Cask

Assassins Creed Spirits Edward Kenway Spiced Rum

BEST SPICED RUM

Best Gin

The Winner will compete for Best in Show White Spirit/Non Whiskey.

Farmer’s Reserve Strength Gin

Best Vodka

The Winner will compete for Best in Show White Spirit/Non Whiskey.

Belvedere 10

Best Brandy

The Winner will compete for Best in Show White Spirit/Non Whiskey.

Wayward Cask 25 Year Calvados Pays D’Auge

Best Liqueur

The Winner will compete for Best in Show White Spirit/Non Whiskey.

Faretti Biscotti

Best in Show

2025 Best in Show "Whiskey of the Year"

Lasso Motel 18 Year American Straight Whiskey

Old Soul Bourbon Tintype #1

BEST BOURBON

Pinhook Vertical Series Rye – 9 Year

BEST RYE

The QuintEssential Special Release – Wine Club

BEST AMERICAN SINGLE MALT

Lasso Motel 18 Year American Straight Whiskey

"Vanilla cream, sweet tea, caramel drizzle and subtle chocolate dominate the palate! A great flavor bomb of a whiskey!

Ardbeg Eureka!

BEST SCOTCH

Redbreast 18 Year Old Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey

BEST IRISH WHISKEY

2025 Best in Show "White Spirit/Non Whiskey of the Year"

Rolling Fork Spirits 16 Year Trinidad Single Cask

Farmer’s Reserve Strength Gin

BEST GIN

Belvedere 10

BEST VODKA

Santa Almagia Tobala Joven

BEST AGAVE SPIRIT

Rolling Fork 16 Year Trinidad Single Cask

"Nice warm coffee cake nose. Plenty of cinnamon across the palate, lingering oak tannins on finish. Great proof choice. A fine rum!"

Wayward Cask 25 Year Calvados Pays D’Auge

BEST BRANDY

Faretti Biscotti

BEST LIQUEUR

2025 "Best in Show" Ultimate Winner

Lasso Motel 18 Year American Straight Whiskey

Lasso Motel 18 Year American Straight Whiskey

"Vanilla cream, sweet tea, caramel drizzle and subtle chocolate dominate the palate! The flavors linger while a rye spice slowly builds along the mid and back palate. A great flavor bomb of a whiskey!"

Rolling Fork 16 Year Trinidad Single Cask

2025 Best in Show "White Spirit/Non Whiskey of the Year"

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