So I wrote about the drammies yesterday - before the winners were announced and it’s a good job I wasn’t betting on them because I didn’t pick many of the consensus winners!

See below for some links to the actual winners in each category (with my nomination in brackets)

Best Packaging
Highland Park
(Monkey Shoulder)

Most Innovative New Product
Compass Box - The Spice Tree - unfortunately I can’t link directly to the spice tree whisky because of the flash on their website
(Laphroaig Quarter Cask)

Innovator of the Year Yay. I got this one!!: Compass Box / John Glaser

Bang for the Buck
Old Pulteney 12
(Dalmore 12)

Distillery of the Year
Bruichladdich
(Ardbeg)

Best Distillery Tour
Aberlour
(No experience of any of the nominations!)

Most under-rated Whisky
Longmorn 15 - on the Scotch Whisky website - I can’t find a Longmorn website - is there one? I have just heard from Neil MacDonald at Chivas that there is a new Longmorn website in the pipeline - you’ll hear more when we do!
(Springbank)

Best New Product
Benriach Authenticus 21
(Laphroaig Quarter Cask)

Most over-rated Whisky
Johnnie Walker Blue Label
(Macallan 18)