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Barbados Today
Foursquare Distillery rum wins international award
RL Seale Distilling, Foursquare 14 YO Equipoise Rum has won the prestigious International Wine & Spirits Competition (IWSC) 2024 Rum Trophy.
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Food & Business Industry News
Local distiller takes home highest honour at the 2024 IWSC awards
Naught Gin has made history by winning the IWSC Classic Gin Trophy at the renowned International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC), the oldest spirits competition worldwide.
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Inside FMCG
Edenvale takes global honours for low- and no-alcohol wine
Alcohol-removed wine brand Edenvale has won a global award for its Premium Reserve Sparkling Shiraz NV at this year’s International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC).
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Yahoo Life
These Scotch Whiskeys Swept the Best-in-the-World Trophies at IWSC 2024
Earlier this year, spirits professionals tasted more than 4,000 spirits to pick out their favorites and awarded gold and silver medal rankings to various winners. Some of the contest's judges recently reunited to hand out trophies to the best of the best of this year's standouts.
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Food & Drink Business
Australia shines with six IWSC trophies
The International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC) has announced its 48 trophy winners for 2024, with Australia receiving five for wine and one for gin.
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Men's Journal
This California Gin Was Just Named the Best Flavored Gin in the World
Spirits professionals judged more than 7,000 different liquors at this year's International Wine & Spirit Competition. Once the various gold and silver medal winners were chosen, the testers went back to pick just 24 of the best of the best spirits to award coveted IWSC trophies.
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Forbes
The World’s Best Irish Whiskey According To The IWSC
Powers Three Swallows, Single Pot Still Whiskey was awarded the Irish Whiskey trophy for Best Irish Whiskey at the 2024 International Wine & Spirits Competition whiskey judging
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Forbes
The World’s Best Rye Whiskey According To The IWSC 2024 Whiskey Judging
The International Wine & Spirits Competition has awarded the 2024 Rye Whisky Trophy for World’s Best Rye Whiskey to Frank August Case Study: 03, Winter Cover Rye, 3 Barrel Batch.
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Forbes
The World's Best Gin According To The 2024 IWSC Judging
The International Wine & Spirits Competition (IWSC) has awarded the 2024 Classic Gin Trophy to Naught Distilling, Overproof Gin. The 2024 Flavored Gin Trophy was awarded to Anchor Distilling Company, Junipero Smoked Rosemary Gin. Both spirits were judged the world's best in their respective gin category.
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Men's Journal
These Kentucky-Made Whiskeys Were Just Named the Best in the World
On Oct. 4, the IWSC announced the spirits that won trophies in the 2024 competition after judges re-tasted this year's gold medal winners. Amid some stiff competition, Kentucky-based Coors Spirits Co.'s Five Trail Barrel Proof Batch 003 Blended American Whiskey was crowned the best whiskey in the world
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Forbes
The World’s Best Whiskey, According To The 2024 IWSC Judging
Coors Spirits Co’s, Five Trail Barrel Proof 003 Blended American Whiskey was awarded the 2024 Worldwide Whiskey trophy for World’s Best Whiskey at the International Wine & Spirits Competition.
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Forbes
The World’s Best Blended Scotch Whisky, According To The IWSC
The International Wine & Spirits Competition has announced the top blended Scotch whisky of 2024. The winner is a new expression from one of the oldest, iconic brands of blended Scotch whisky.
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Forbes
Four Distilleries Vying For IWSC’s Bourbon Producer Of The Year Trophy
Four distilleries are finalists for the IWSC Bourbon Producer of the Year Trophy. Those distilleries won 52 medals at the recently completed 2024 IWSC American Whisky Judging
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Forbes
The World’s Best Bourbon—According To The 2024 International Wine & Spirit Competition
For the first time, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious spirits competitions held a judging event in North America, and a small family-owned distillery came out on top.
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Forbes
The Top Bourbon, According To The IWSC 2024 American Whiskey Judging
Four American whiskeys took Gold Outstanding medals, and 23 won Gold medals at the IWSC’s recently completed judging of North American whiskies.
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European Food Agency
Antica distilleria Quaglia wins 5 awards at the International wine & spirit competition
Gold Award for Servaj Dry Gin Tenuta Sussambrino: medals for the tamarind liqueur, poppy Elderberry and for the Espresso Liqueur "Ninebar". Antica Distilleria Quaglia is confirmed as an ambassador of excellence made in Italy.
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Forbes
The Top Scotch Whisky Producers - According To The International Wine And Spirit Competition
Each year, the International Wine and Spirit Competition awards Spirit Producer Trophies to “the most outstanding producers in their respective categories: agave, gin, rum, vodka, whisky, and several others.” These prestigious trophies represent the IWSC's top accolade.
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Forbes
The World’s Best Tequila—According To The 2024 International Wine & Spirit Competition
If it feels like tequila-based drinks are popping up on cocktail lists everywhere, rest assured, you're not hallucinating. Tequila, a spirit once consigned to shooters and, even worse, hangovers, is suddenly everyone's favorite spirit.
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The Shout
Four Pillars secures fifth IWSC producer shortlist
It’s the fifth time the distillery has made the IWSC shortlist, with Four Pillars taking out the gong in 2019, 2020 and 2023. The nomination comes after Four Pillars Barrel Aged Bloody Underhill Shiraz Gin was awarded 99 points at the competition earlier this year.
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Vinmagasinet Livets Goda
Hernö Gin shortlisted for the 2024 International Gin Producer of the Year
For a striking sixth time Hernö Gin has been shortlisted for International Gin Producer of the Year. The annual International Wine and Spirits Competition (IWSC) is considered to be the Oscars of the spirits industry. Hernö Gin has won the prestigious award twice before.
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