- Paperback: 360 pages
- Publisher: Dram Good Books Ltd; 6th Year edition (1 Nov 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955472938
- ISBN-13: 978-0955472930
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 9.4 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 276,349 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I love this little book! Jim Murray has a great depth of knowledge and more importantly a great passion for his subject. Of course it can be argued that his reviews are subjective (all reviews are?) so the test has to be do you agree with his views? So buy a bottle (or just a glass!) he recommends and if it works for you as it did for him - bingo! In general I have followed his recommendations and always enjoyed the dram - though I would never claim to possess a palette as sophisticated his. With so many different whiskies available its good to have a guide that you can trust and that can be carried with you to the supermarket, pub or distillery to help make your selections. Highly recommended and worth buying each year for the updates.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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It's good to see Jim Murray back on top form with this year's 2009 Whisky Bible. Like Hugh Johnson is to wine, this book is never seems to remain in the bookcase for long as it is always being pulled out for reference, to settle a discussion or look up some information about a new whisky.
Yes of course it's one man's opinion (in the same way Hugh Johnson and Robert Parker are with their wine scores) but it is still a succinct and readable collection of reviews all in one spot.
For anyone who is has a fledgling interest in whisk(e)y, wants to know more or would like some guidance then Jim is the man to turn to!
Yes of course it's one man's opinion (in the same way Hugh Johnson and Robert Parker are with their wine scores) but it is still a succinct and readable collection of reviews all in one spot.
For anyone who is has a fledgling interest in whisk(e)y, wants to know more or would like some guidance then Jim is the man to turn to!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Obviously Whisky tasting is highly subjective and this guy has obviously drunk a lot of the stuff and knows what he likes, I've got no problem with that, but what gets me about this book is that at the begining Murray makes some claim about being totally neutral and not being under the thumb of some distillery or other because he doesn't work for a magazine, so doesn't need to think of advertising revenues, then he says that he works as a consultant for the Ardbeg distillery. Now I love Ardbeg whisky and as far as I'm concerned it is one of the best distillerys there is today, but Murray gives his award of the world's best whisky of 2009 as an obscure and unpurchasable bottling of Ardbeg Uigeadail, which might very well be the best whisky in the world for all I know, but then Ardbeg, presumably with his consent are selling a totally different bottling of Uigeadail (different strength), which Murray ranks simply as very good, as the Jim Murray approved world's best Whisky. I suppose my point about this book is that it is basically a sales tool and you are probably better off looking on forums to see what real people are drinking and enjoying that reading this.
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