Judging – August 1-3, 2022
The judging process, itself, is conducted as a 100% blind tasting process from the early rounds all the way through the sweepstakes rounds.
As each entry is received, it is catalogued in the system and put into its most appropriate sub-category. During the competition, all the spirits in their respective and specific sub-categories are sampled together as flights, carefully evaluated from color to finish, and scored by each one of our spirits judges on that that flight.
Then, scores for each spirit are tallied. The few spirits that have the distinguished honor of being scored the highest will move on to the sweepstakes rounds.
In the early afternoon of September 16, those highest scored spirits will be judged again to crown the Best of the Show categories.