# Award matching review sample, 2026-09-10 (Stream N)

Read-only diff of the expression-marker veto and the apostrophe fix (`app/services/awards_import.py`,
running-list item `issue-award-shorter-entry-on-variant`) against the 9 Sep nightly restored as
`dfp_n`. Baseline: the matcher as deployed in 0.34.0, rebuilt on the same copy first.

Stats before: winners=13244 matched=413 created=0 already_present=0 ambiguous=224 updated=0 corrected=0 removed=0 unchanged=371 ambiguous_same_year=14
Stats after:  winners=13244 matched=410 created=4 already_present=0 ambiguous=197 updated=0 corrected=0 removed=2 unchanged=373 ambiguous_same_year=9
Rows: 371 before, 377 after; a second rebuild changed nothing (idempotent).

## What changed in the rule
- A word that marks an expression (cask, strength, finish, rye, sherry, port, peated, barrel,
  label, the label colours, xo/vs/vsop, spiced, the flavour words, and so on) on ONE side only
  is a veto. Category and size words are still free on either side. "single", "batch",
  "proof", "double", "triple", "rose", "red", "white", "organic" and "edition" were tried and
  dropped: each cost a right medal on this copy (single malt, batch distilled, 81 proof, triple
  malt, a wine's colour, a retailer's "Organic", a "Travel Edition").
- A typographic apostrophe now reads as a straight one: the winners file writes "Angel’s Envy"
  and the brand field "Angel's Envy", and the brand gate had refused every such entry.

## Removed (16), read by hand
Right (a different bottling carried the plain entry's medal): the Classic Laddie Sherry Cask
Edition (entry: The Classic Laddie); Bacardi Reserva Ocho Rye Cask Finish (entry: Reserva Ocho);
Glendalough Double Barrel cask strength, five rows (entry: Double Barrel Irish Whiskey);
Glendalough Pot Still Peated, three rows (entry: Pot Still Irish Whiskey); Merrys Irish Cream
Chocolate Peanut Butter (entry: Irish Cream); Chic Choc Spiced Rum's Bronze (the Noir entry's;
its own Gold now lands, below).
Misses accepted, precision first: Onikishi Deadly Sakura Cherry Blossom (entry: Sakura; "cherry"
is a flavour marker); Smirnoff No. 57 Blue Vodka (no entry names the Blue); Skellig Six18 Single
Pot Still, two rows (entries: Triple Cask Single Pot Still; "cask" vetoes and the catalogue does
not say which bottling the plain name is).
- 10106 | Classic Laddie Sherry Cask Edition | nyisc | 2025 | Silver
- 2771 | Chic Choc Spiced Rum 750ml | nyisc | 2022 | Bronze
- 3038 | Onikishi Deadly Sakura Cherry Blossom Japanese Whisky 700 ml | nyisc | 2025 | Gold
- 3240 | No. 57 Blue Vodka  1L | aisc | 2024 | Silver
- 3502 | Bacardí Reserva Ocho Rye Cask Finish Rum 1L | nyisc | 2021 | Bronze
- 3548 | Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey 70cl | bisc | 2024 | Gold
- 3548 | Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey 70cl | nyisc | 2024 | Gold
- 3705 | Glendalough Double Barrel cask strength Irish whiskey 70cl | nyisc | 2021 | Silver
- 3705 | Glendalough Double Barrel cask strength Irish whiskey 70cl | nyisc | 2022 | Double Gold
- 3705 | Glendalough Double Barrel cask strength Irish whiskey 70cl | nyisc | 2023 | Silver
- 3705 | Glendalough Double Barrel cask strength Irish whiskey 70cl | nyisc | 2024 | Gold
- 3705 | Glendalough Double Barrel cask strength Irish whiskey 70cl | nyisc | 2025 | Gold
- 3723 | Glendalough Pot Still Peated Irish Whiskey 70cl | nyisc | 2022 | Silver
- 3723 | Glendalough Pot Still Peated Irish Whiskey 70cl | nyisc | 2023 | Gold
- 3723 | Glendalough Pot Still Peated Irish Whiskey 70cl | nyisc | 2024 | Silver
- 3821 | Merrys Irish Cream Chocolate Peanut Butter 70cl | nyisc | 2024 | Silver

## Added (22), read by hand
Ties the veto now resolves (the variant no longer competes with the plain bottle): Wild Turkey
101, Grand Marnier Cordon Rouge, Espolòn Blanco, Bushmills 10, Barefoot Pinot Grigio and
Moscato, Jackson Triggs Grand Reserve, Black Label (Johnnie Walker), Martell Noblige. The
apostrophe fix: Angel's Envy port finish (the plain bourbon's Bronze, on the plain bourbon),
Buchanan's Pineapple. Chic Choc Spiced Rum's own Gold.
- 166 | Wild Turkey 101 1L | nyisc | 2020 | Bronze
- 166 | Wild Turkey 101 1L | nyisc | 2022 | Silver
- 2732 | Grand Marnier Cordon Rouge 750ml | nyisc | 2021 | Bronze
- 2732 | Grand Marnier Cordon Rouge 750ml | nyisc | 2022 | Gold
- 2771 | Chic Choc Spiced Rum 750ml | nyisc | 2022 | Gold
- 3004 | Tequila Espolòn Blanco 750 ml | nyisc | 2022 | Gold
- 3008 | Angel’s Envy Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey finished in port wine barrels 750 ml | nyisc | 2024 | Bronze
- 4134 | Barefoot Pinot Grigio 13% 75cl | nyiwc | 2020 | Bronze
- 4134 | Barefoot Pinot Grigio 13% 75cl | nyiwc | 2021 | Bronze
- 4904 | Bushmills 10 YO 40% 0.7L | bisc | 2021 | Double Gold
- 4904 | Bushmills 10 YO 40% 0.7L | nyisc | 2019 | Silver
- 4904 | Bushmills 10 YO 40% 0.7L | nyisc | 2021 | Gold
- 5530 | Barefoot Moscato 0.75L | nyiwc | 2019 | Silver
- 5530 | Barefoot Moscato 0.75L | nyiwc | 2020 | Bronze
- 5530 | Barefoot Moscato 0.75L | nyiwc | 2021 | Bronze
- 7079 | Buchanan Pineapple 75cl | nyisc | 2024 | Gold
- 7154 | Jackson Triggs Grand Reserve Pinot Noir 75cl | miwc | 2024 | Gold
- 7154 | Jackson Triggs Grand Reserve Pinot Noir 75cl | nyiwc | 2022 | Silver
- 7154 | Jackson Triggs Grand Reserve Pinot Noir 75cl | nyiwc | 2024 | Gold
- 7473 | Black Label Blended Scotch Whisky | nyisc | 2019 | Gold
- 7473 | Black Label Blended Scotch Whisky | nyisc | 2023 | Double Gold
- 800 | Martell Noblige 1L | aisc | 2023 | Silver