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Lidl whisky costing £13.49 named best Scotch in the world

independent.co.uk

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I am trying to wrap my head around this.

This was supposedly coming from the following website http://www.worldwhiskiesawards.com/winner/whisky/2018

But have search low and high to find the Lidl Whiskey Queen Margot, but i have been unable to find it in any awards.

From a quick google search various website spread the same news, but none actually link to a reputable source for this.

As far as i can find Lidl won the chain supermarket last year whiskey award while Aldi have just earned a Gold Medal at the 2018 Scotch Whisky Masters awards.

The two winners are the Highland Black 8-year-old Blended Scotch and their Glen Marnoch Islay Single Malt.

Can someone please enlighten me if i am wrong ...

Edit: Just found this link https://www.forbes.com/sites/felipeschrieberg/2019/02/28/fak... That explain that the so called websites are really as expected ... not to be trusted.

I've also been digging around and eventually found that "Winners will be announced on 28 March 2019" on their site so I'm guessing the winner hasn't officially been announced yet.

Right, it seems that those are round 1 results

In what category and what was it up against?

The only link I could find in any article was to here: http://www.worldwhiskiesawards.com/winner/whisky/2018

And there it says the Johnnie Walker Gold Label won best blended.

Edit: Newspaper linked to last years results. Apparently this years results haven't been announced yet and will only be announced on 28 March 2019.

might be a hoax. it's the same article word by word everywhere and no proof on the contest website.

'World's Best Scotch Whisky' according to the article.

A lot of these Lidl/Aldi awards don't stand up to scrutiny.

'World's Best Scotch Whisky' according to the article.

Which is weird because that is not a category World Whiskies Awards lists on their competition site. The closest category they have that this would fit in would be Blended 12 Years & Under

that's a fake news, https://www.forbes.com/sites/felipeschrieberg/2019/02/28/fak...

Netto isn’t going that sit by and let Lidl just dominate like this.

I hope that I will not forget to try it when I will be in Germany.

Same thing as Aldi's whisky last year.

Can you get it in the u.s.?

Lidl is just getting started in the US where liquor laws are nonsensical so i would guess not, especially since the only stores i know of are in NJ & PA. NJ - they wont be paying $1M+ for a license, of which they can only get 2 for the company in the whole state, plus they are a discount grocery store; and PA - only state stores can sell hard liquor.

This site is unwatchable on safari ios.

So is the whiskey any good?

The independent really grinds my gears with autoplay

Tried it a while ago; surely it's not Lagavulin, but it's good.

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