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A New Year Brings A New Whiskey Review Process

As we move forward into 2017, we've decided to make a shift in the way we assign scores in our reviews.

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  • Nino Kilgore-Marchetti, founder of The Whiskey Wash, is an award-winning whiskey journalist, expert, and judge
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of the spirit, to the design of the bottle, just too complicated. With this shift, we will make the process simpler for reviewers, while at the same time holding to the same editorial standards we’ve had for reviews since the very beginning. We review a lot of whiskey here at The Whiskey Wash (image via The Whiskey Wash) Secondly, we (along with the rest of the whiskey reviewing community) just aren’t using the lower side of the scale. Even the lowest whiskey we scored last year came in at 59. It just doesn’t make sense to us to have a 100 point scale when reviewers only use the top 40-point range. So, without further ado, here is our new rating scale: 5 stars: A fantastic whiskey, among the best in its category 4 stars: Really good, a solid sipper and top-tier mixer 3 stars: Totally fine, a solid mixer and an acceptable sipper 2 stars: Hard to love, with obvious flaws 1 star: Deeply flawed, not enjoyable Reviews are obviously subjective – we often field comments from folks who disagree with our scores or who find they don’t get the same flavor notes our reviewers did. That makes sense – everybody’s
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on this brown spirit type.””,””sameAs””:[“”https://thewhiskeywash.com””,””https://www.facebook.com/thewhiskeywash/””,””https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninomarchetti””,””https://twitter.com/whiskeywash””],””url””:””https://thewhiskeywash.com/author/thewhiskeywash/””}]} Skip to content Home Reviews Articles American Bourbon Canadian Irish Scotch World Drinks Subscribe About Our Team Advertise Partners Whiskey Review Submission Guidelines Contact Us Search website Home Reviews Articles American Bourbon Canadian Irish Scotch World Drinks Subscribe About Our Team Advertise Partners Whiskey Review Submission Guidelines Contact Us Search website Search… Search A New Year Brings A New Whiskey Review Process Nino Kilgore-Marchetti is difference. Our mission with reviews is to offer our educated opinion on why we think a given whiskey is good or bad, and let you, the reader, ultimately decide whether or not it is worth spending your dollars on. We welcome, as always, your comments and feedback. Feel free to leave a note for us at the bottom of this article or drop us a line. In the meanwhile, we look forward to bringing you many more reviews under our new system going into 2017 and beyond.


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Editor’s Note: This whiskey was either bought as a sample by The Whiskey Wash or provided to us as a review sample by the party behind it. Per our editorial policies, this in no way influenced the outcome of this review.

Nino Kilgore-Marchetti

Nino Kilgore-Marchetti is the founder of The Whiskey Wash, an award-winning whiskey lifestyle website dedicated to informing and entertaining consumers about whisk(e)y globally. As a whisk(e)y journalist, expert, and judge, he has written extensively about the subject, been interviewed in various media outlets, and provided tasting input on many whiskeys at competitions.

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