Whisky Live brings the country's longest-running tasting to Surfers Paradise

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Whisky Live – Australia's longest-running whisky tasting event – returns to the Gold Coast on 22 August at the JW Marriott in Surfers Paradise. The draw is breadth and ease: a large open-floor selection of whiskies to taste at your own pace, free masterclasses running through the day, and hot and cold food folded into the ticket. It is pitched squarely at the room rather than the specialist – equally at home for a first-timer finding their feet as for a collector chasing something new.

More details: Whisky Live.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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