In my old blog, I posted a long time ago some common complaints, when it comes to spirit competitions: usually the spirit companies have to pay for their participation [so small companies usually don't compete], they have also to offer their product free of charge to the tasting panel. And to believe, that these competitions are independent, is analogue to the belief, that their is a tooth fairy. And then there are so many competitions [it is a lucrative business to do this competitions due to the participation fees] and usually there is no clear winners but a lot of gold medals, double gold medals [WTF is double gold??] as well as silver and bronze and so on. But even if everything would be utopian fair - there would be one point, which cannot be neglected: it is quite easy to judge a quality of spirit - but to make a ranking is almost impossible [at least not a fair ranking]. It becomes obvious, if you just take a rather small category: Scotch Single Malts: there is a grea...