Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2025-2026.

Whisky Bible is an annually releasing book from whisky grand specialist Jim Murray. I don’t know another such renowned man with any alcohol beverage, as this noble Englishman. I do not see the necessity to buy Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible all the time. It was fine for me to have another one in a gap between twenty years. It is interesting to compare how familiar aqua vitae looks now and the quantity of drinks increased multiple time, as I wanted to know his views about those that aren’t in a previous edition that I have.

His language is sharp, as that shows from the explaining of ratings. I adore writer’s independence and honesty, as he writes about marks, and that feels later. In his forewords Jim Murray explains why there was no a book in 2025 and I love what he says about the British government to which the Englishman makes an apt definition and doesn’t forget to mention the attack of political correctness. Then the author tells aqua vitae stories, which read as a tender song, and I wished to have more of them.

I always liked that his best whisky/ey of the year are from those available to everybody to those where you should have a lot of money.

Murray’s depiction of drinks is light reading, contains a grandiose sense of humor and he always could say a lot in a few words. There can be seen a true Englishman and a man who doesn’t mince words, as calling a person an “idiot” for his recommendation to drink it cold.

I mostly have contrasting views with a man who deserves to be knighted, and sometimes I became “horrified” and acquired a Scotsman temperament, as his view about Buffalo Trace or he diminishes Irish whiskey whereas acclaims Japanese whisky. Nevertheless, the reading is always a pleasure.

There I recognized how familiar drunk bottles changed or not, as I wanted to know about Ballantine’s Aged 17 Years, which he always praised and put in the year’s finest many times. Afterward, I wanted to compare with that I had many years ago.

I always do searching and learning about aqua vitae, and I’m always skeptical of bottles from not traditional places. I couldn’t find everything in my personal looking for, whereas Jim Murray brings me discoveries. I’m extremely skeptical of his praising of Estonian whiskey while I became attracted to some booze from Czechia and Slovakia after doing individual checking.

How I love this unique smell of a new book. Not a liker of a pocket size but it is acceptable for holdings in hands. Anyway, it is obvious, and that can see in his telling, that the Englishman did that size for those who come to an alcohol store. Whisky Bible is an absolutely comfortable guide where you can easily find you wishful drink. As well as, he adds wonderful pictures of maps of regions and where these distilleries are located.

I do not favor only that Jim Murray shows his commercial as informing how you can acquire all his Whisky Bible books.