WHISKY MAGAZINE Numero 58

The judges at the 2015 World Whiskies Awards have decided. The best single malt in the world is Taiwanese, with this Kavalan, Solist Vinho Barrique Cask Strength. A great winner that beats the traditional whiskies from Scotland and Ireland by a head. Asian whisky is doing well, thank you! For the past ten years, the whisky world and consumers in general - as evidenced by its growing success with wine merchants - have been keeping a close eye on what's happening far, far away in the East, and what's arriving here on their shelves. So with this title, Kavalan pushes the trend even further, going totally against the grain of the low-cost image of 'made in Taiwan'. In this issue, you'll discover the big winners of the 2015 edition. In this spring edition of Whisky Magazine, with Davin de Kergommeaux, we also take a look at a pleasant surprise: Canadian whiskies. So can we really talk about a renaissance?

Finally, off to Speyside with Christine Lambert. She will take you to Benromach, and show you how this former small distillery now has all the makings of a big one.