Dominic Roskrow is an award-winning drinks writer and the former editor of Whisky Magazine, The Spirits Business and Whiskeria. He has written eight books on whisky including The World's Best Whiskies, 1001 Whiskies You Must Taste Before You Die and The Whisky Opus (for which he was nominated for the 2013 Fortnum & Mason Drinks Writer of the Year award), and has contributed to several more, including every edition of The Whisky Yearbook. He specializes in world whisky and whisky from non-traditional whisky-making regions. In 2007 he received the Scotch whisky industry's highest honor when he was made a Keeper of the Quaich, and in 2010 he was made a Kentucky Colonel, Kentucky's highest award.