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The Top Rated Tequila In Every Category From This Year’s IWSC

From completely un-aged silver glittering Blancos to carefully crafted Reposados to even the most luxurious of aged and purified Cristalinos, the IWSC has tasted the best the modern tequila market has to offer and ranked each bottle accordingly using a double-blind tasting method for full impartiality.

Ilkley Gazette

Booths wines win top accolades from international wine and spirit competition

Family owned, independent food and wine retailer Booths, with a store in Ilkley, have won five prestigious medals in the International Wine and Spirit Competition.

Radio Canada International

Small Canadian distiller now among world’s best in vodka

Georgian Bay Spirit Co, was started only a few years ago first making gin, and only later vodka but now their Georgian Bay Vodka ranks with the best in the world.

PR Newswire

Georgian Bay Vodka™ is ranked as one of the Ten Best Vodkas in the world

The creators of Georgian Bay Vodka™ has been recognized as one of the top ten vodkas in the world.

News Lagoon

The Highest Scoring Añejo Tequilas From This Year’s International Wine & Spirits Competition

If you’re going to pour a glass, you might as well make it the best of the best, which is why we’re diving into the highest scoring bottles of Añejo Tequila from this year’s International Wine & Spirits Competition.

iHeartRadio

LOCALLY PRODUCED VODKA WINS TOP AWARDS

Polar Ice Vodka Arctic Extreme was voted among the top 10 best at the International Wine & Spirits Competition (IWSC).

Travel and Leisure

What Is Cachaça? Get to Know the Spirit Behind Rio’s Caipirinhas

The 2019 Cachaça Tellura Prata received a score of 93 from the IWSC for its “light vegetal grassy and floral notes on the nose. All sugarcane aromas that continue on the palate.”

Yahoo

Polar Ice Arctic Extreme Named One of the World's 10 Best Vodkas

More than a thousand vodkas from around the world are submitted annually for consideration by the IWSC, but only 10 are bestowed the Gold Outstanding, the highest medal given to the best vodkas in the world.

The Buyer

How the Covid crisis has made the IWSC more vital than ever

With drinks producers finding a route to market harder following Covid-19, the IWSC believes that there is an increasing importance being given to IWSC awards as a way of getting new drinks in front of buyers.

Drinks Industry Ireland

Pearse Lyons Distillery wins 7 IWSC medals

The Pearse Lyons Distillery has taken home seven medals from the International Wine & Spirit Competition, the world’s largest international spirit awards event.

FFT

Teeling Takes Home Multiple Awards at IWSC

Teeling Whiskey picked up top honours at the 2020 annual International Wine & Spirits Competition, having been rated top Irish whiskey for its 28 year-old single malt.

Uproxx

The World’s Best Bourbon And American Whiskey, According To International Wine & Spirit Competition

The International Wine & Spirits Competition, as its name denotes, is worldwide. It also casts a very wide net when it comes to spirits and judges — utilizing industry experts for double-blind taste tests.

Uproxx

Our Tasting Notes On The World’s Best Bourbon, According To The International Wine And Spirits Competition

Today brings us newly minted “king of all whiskeys”: Colonel E.H. Taylor Single Barrel Bottled-in-Bond (Straight Kentucky Bourbon).

Forbes

The World’s Best Bourbon—According To The IWSC

Last week the IWSC revealed the results of their annual tasting panel.

Forbes

The 8 Best Gins According To The IWSC

The IWSC, one of the world’s most prestigious wine and spirits judging, just unveiled their choice for the world’s top gins. There are eight of them.

The Shout

Australian spirits show their class on world stage

Australian spirits have continued to gain recognition on the international stage, with a stellar performance at the 2020 IWSC.

Forbes

The World's Top 10 Vodkas According To The IWSC

Vodka is the one spirit that is truly international. It is consumed in around 200 countries around the world, and is produced in approximately 100 countries.

Forbes

The Top American Whiskeys According To The IWSC

The IWSC, one of the world’s most prestigious contests, has announced the American whiskeys that have won Gold Outstanding Awards in the 2020 judging.

DFNI Online

Roust brands win IWSC awards for third consecutive year

Vodka producer Roust has taken home top medals at the International Wine & Spirit Competition 2020 (IWSC) for its premium spirits brands for the third consecutive year.

PR Newswire

Cierto Tequila wins an unprecedented eight awards at the 2020 IWSC

The Elevated Spirits Company is pleased to announce that Cierto Tequila was honored with an unprecedented eight (8) awards in the tequila category at the 2020 International Wine & Spirits Challenge (IWSC).

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