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Alternative drinks

High quality cocktails awarded in the IWSC’s RTD & premixed judging

Announcing the results of its alternative drinks categories, the IWSC is proud to share the medals and trophy results following its RTD and pre-mixed category tastings

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IWSC shares results from its recent vermouth judging

Announcing the results of its alternative drinks categories, the IWSC is proud to share its 2022 vermouth trophy winner and medal results

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IWSC highlights innovation and increasing interest in the flavoured wine category

Announcing the results of its alternative drinks categories, the IWSC is proud to share the medals following the 2022 wine-based and flavoured judging...

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2022 Alternative drinks judging - deliberations from our judges #2

Following the second and final day of judging for our alternative drinks awards, including Vermouth, RTDs and low and no drinks, we managed to catch a few minutes with Shannon Tebay and David T Smith to hear about the day's judging.

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2022 Alternative drinks judging - deliberations from our judges

This week the IWSC is holding it's alternative drinks judging at it's venue in London's China Town. We caught up with Shannon Tebay to find out how the day's judging has gone.

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BevZero to sponsor IWSC's 2022 Low & No Producer Trophy

Ahead of the closing date for its alternative drinks award, including low and no alcohol drinks, the IWSC is delighted to announce its new Low & No Trophy, sponsored by BevZero.

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The IWSC catches up with Shannon Tebay

Following our announcement earlier this year that Shannon Tebay is to head up our 2022 Mixer Awards sponsored by Double Dutch the IWSC managed to catch five minutes with the busy barista. Shannon has over a decade of experience in hospitality and recently left her homeland, the USA, to come to work in London.

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Our Low & No Trophy Winners for Dry January

For the first time, we awarded four Trophies to the four highest scoring gold-medal winners in four Low & No award categories. Each week throughout January the IWSC will be highlighting one of our four trophy winners across our Social Media channels.

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