Product Description

The most comprehensive whisky guide ever written, now further expanded with over 946 new entries and another 56 updated. The best selling ratings guide to all types of whisky including Scotch single malt, blends, vatted malts, single grains; Irish pot still, malts, blends, grains; Bourbon, rye, Japanese, Canadian, Australian, European and many others. Detailed, professionally analysed yet easy to understand tasting notes on more than 3,850 of the world's leading and lesser-known whiskies. Reviews of all that's new and worth looking out for in the world of whisky. Specially designed for quick and easy reference in any liquor store or supermarket. Each whisky evaluated by celebrated whisky guru Jim Murray in his unique, forthright, honest, amusing, fiercely independent and non-pretentious style.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #517 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Customer Reviews

An Invaluable Guide to Buying Good Whisky
If you enjoy whisky then this book (which is updated annually), is a must if you are planning on some retail therapy.

On the whole Jim's assessment of each whisky tasted is spot on and I have yet to be dissapointed with any purchase I've made that was based on his scoring system.

My one crticism, is that you will find duplicate entries for one or two whiskies (Aberfeldy being an example) where everything is the same except the score and with no note as to how the samples differed from each other in terms of the year of bottling etc.

Despite this an unpretentious book that is well worth getting.

The best bible yet
Jim Murray is to whisky writing what Brian Clough was to football. You either love him or hate him. His arrogance, confidence and brash, opinionated delivery either grate and anger you, or you buy in to the fact that he is immensely talented, a class above his peers, and impressively honest about everything,including himself. Murray's Whisky Bible is full of subjective, personalised views, but when you've travelled the world and visited pretty much every distillery on the planet, you have a right to call rank. How can anyone not call his new Bible thorough? New whiskies are released weekly, and to be within months of being up to date is all but impossible. And yet Murray has whiskies in his new Bible only released in September. Amazing. More to the point, though, Murray works alone and writes new copy every year for at least 750 and possibly more than 1000 whiskies. Compare that with the lazy regurgitation of distllery facts and figures in most whisky books (with the notable exception of The Malt Yearbook from Magdig) and Murray is in a class of his own. The new Bible is his best yet. I'm bored with bland. I'm bored with James Blunt. Or Coldplay. Or Leona Lewis.
Give me McEnroe. Give me Axl Rose.Give me the Beast of Bolsover. Give me Clough.
Give me Jim Murray. This is the best new whisky book of 2009 by far.

gift
I buy this annually for my son for Christmas. He is always very pleased with the new version. I was pleased with the prompt delivery.
Thank you.