Whisky Focus - The Worlds Best Whiskies By Dominic Roskrow Whisky Book

The World’s Best Whiskies - 750 Essential Drams from Tain to Tokyo by Dominic Roskrow

This is is not another pocket sized whisky guide as  many whisky books tend to be now. This is a 27 X 21cm very well illustrated comprehensive guide to whisky. But does bigger mean better?

The introduction gives you a brief history of whisky and an overview of the of the making of whisky, including the production of single malt whisky, blended whisky and bourbon. This is followed by some whisky basics on tasting whisky, flavour categories and what type of whisky glass to use. It covers the different whisky styles found in the world today and there is a section on whisky &  food pairing and cocktails.

We then get to the section that gives the book its title, the section with 750 of the worlds best whiskies. This is split in to sub-sections - Scotland, USA, Canada, Ireland, Japan, Europe and the Rest Of The World.

Each of the 750 whiskies is accompanied with an image of each bottle and a straight forward unpretentious informative traditional tasting note for each of the whiskies.

My one criticism of the book is that Dominic has used a symbol system to help describe each of the 750 whiskies, 10 symbols in total. My problem with this symbol system is each time I came back to the book I couldn't remember what each symbol meant and repeatedly had to hunt for the symbols definition page, why is it on page 45 and not the first or last page or even on the inside jacket of the book. I suppose you would eventually get to know the symbols which are of interest to you such as PREMIUM TIPPLE or CONNOISSEUR CLASSIC.

Throughout the book between the whisky tasting notes there are profiles of some of the top distillers in the whisky industry as well as profiles of some of the top distilleries in the world and some great anecdotes about the places that produce the whiskies

A smart well illustrated and very readable whisky book covering most of the whiskies we are likely to encounter. The straight forward unpretentious tasting notes and whisky anecdotes make this a comprehensive and entertaining guide for both the whisky connoisseur and those just beginning their journey into the world of whisky.

To answer my question "does bigger mean better?", yes.

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