Editorial partner
Spirits Selection is a global spirits competition and editorial partner of Barlist, contributing expertise, tasting insights, and institutional credibility to selected stories and guides.
Spirits Selection is an international competition dedicated to evaluating and highlighting spirits from around the world. Through a rigorous tasting process and a strong network of industry professionals, it helps bring visibility to producers, categories, and emerging trends across the global spirits landscape.
Barlist collaborates with Spirits Selection through co-created editorial content designed to make spirits culture more accessible, educational, and engaging. This partnership brings together Barlist’s editorial approach and Spirits Selection’s tasting expertise to enrich selected articles, guides, and discovery experiences.
Together, both platforms help readers go beyond labels and awards by connecting recognition, tasting language, and cultural context.
Discover articles, guides, and educational pieces created in collaboration with Spirits Selection.
Partnership
Pisco is one of the few spirits whose identity is divided by national borders rather than defined by them. Both Peru and Chile claim pisco as a national spirit, each supported by legal frameworks, historical narratives, and active production. This dual claim is not a modern branding dispute. It is the outcome of colonial administration, […]
October 7, 2026
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Singani is one of the least understood legally protected spirits in the world. Despite centuries of continuous production in Bolivia, it remains largely absent from global spirits discourse. This absence is not due to ambiguity or lack of definition. Singani is one of the most tightly structured grape distillates in existence, defined by altitude, grape […]
September 30, 2026
Partnership
Rum was not designed to be preserved. It was designed to move. For most of its early history, rum existed as cargo rather than a collectable, shipped in bulk or sealed bottles across the Atlantic as part of a vast commercial system linking sugar plantations, ports, navies, and merchants. When sealed bottles of 19th century […]
September 23, 2026
Partnership
Cognac did not become a global spirit because of vineyards alone. Its rise depended on water, ships, and merchants long before it depended on distilleries. The identity of Cognac was shaped as much by the port of Bordeaux as by the chalk soils of Charente. Without Bordeaux’s access to Atlantic trade routes, cognac would likely […]
September 16, 2026
Partnership
Madeiran rum exists within a narrow technical and geographic framework that resists abstraction. Unlike Caribbean or Latin American rum traditions shaped by scale and export, rum production on Madeira remains tied to fresh sugarcane juice, seasonal distillation, and localised milling. From the northern coast at Porto da Cruz to the southern town of Calheta, a […]
September 9, 2026
Partnership
Madeiran Rum production has always been defined less by volume than by method. Unlike Caribbean regions shaped by plantation scale and colonial export markets, Madeira developed a rum culture rooted in small agricultural units, seasonal cane harvests, and legally enforced technical choices. The island’s modern rum identity is structured around a clear technical divide between […]
September 2, 2026
Cocktails
In a dimly lit bar, a crystal-clear drink arrives at the table, transparent as water yet aromatic with citrus, spice, or oak. The first sip confounds expectation. Texture is silkier than the appearance suggests. Flavor unfolds in layers without cloudiness. This is the language of clarified cocktails. A clarified cocktail is a mixed drink that […]
March 6, 2026
Meet the writers and experts who co-created content with Spirits Selection on Barlist.
Global spirits authority, author of the Spirits Guidelines, and Director of the Spirits Selection by CMB, bringing 25+ years of international category expertise to Barlist.
