Alan Lodge Award names 2020 winner 1st February, 2021 by Melita Kiely
Susannah Skiver Barton has been crowned winner of The Alan Lodge Young International Drinks Writer of the Year Award 2020.
Susannah Skiver Barton has been named The Alan Lodge Young International Drinks Writer of the Year 2020
Skiver Barton, senior editor, tasting and digital at
Whisky Advocate, and editor-at-large at
Market Watch, succeeded against numerous entries from other international journalists, columnists and bloggers.
The 2020 edition of the annual award was judged remotely in January 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The judging panel comprised Emily Harris, director of May Fox Communications; Becky Paskin, spirits journalist and co-founder of Our Whisky; and Melita Kiely, editor of