Thanks to some British sensibility, my faith in Spirits Awards is now partly restored. The World Drinks Awards in my humble opinion appears to be on the track towards doing it right. Entries are slotted into their various categories and then each category judged once to weed out products that do not conform to expected characteristics. Surviving products are judged again to further whittle down the list. And then again to identify the category winner. There is none of the usual suspect nonsense of 19 people in a category all taking Gold, 23 people taking Silver and so on. In my travels, if I see a craft distiller ( or a distiller in general) who has won at this British event, I will definitely pay close attention to that product….