DramFest 2025 Nosing Competition

After a 10-year hiatus, we’re bringing back this iconic DramFest competition which challenges teams of whisky enthusiasts to battle it out and see who can guess the identity of 5 mystery drams over the course of DramFest weekend. Be in to win 5 bottles of whisky for each team member!

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: grab some teammates and identify the 5 mystery whiskies from an anonymous line up.

Some key competition points:

·         max. 3 members per team
·     each team must fill out the online ‘sign up’ form and choose their preferred ‘nosing’ day
·         5 mystery drams will be poured for you each to ‘nose’ at the times allocated
·         1 hour to assess, confer and finalise your guesses as a team
·         points will be collated after the final nosing competition ends
·         the winning team will be announced at 5.30pm in the Exhibition Foyer of Te Pae by a special guest
·         the team with the most overall points wins a bottle of each mystery whisky, per person!

Nosing Competitions times each day:
Friday 28th February: 5:00pm - FRIDAY APPLICATIONS ARE NOW FULL
Saturday 1st March: 2:00pm - SATURDAY APPLICATIONS ARE NOW FULL
Sunday 2nd March: 2:00pm - SUNDAY APPLICATIONS ARE NOW FULL