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Each week we publish stories about the best wines and spirits, our experts, upcoming events, and beverage industry news. And, don't miss our new IWSC Insights series, where we take an in-depth look into drinks businesses and markets around the world. Looking for recommendations? Visit our consumer website Club Oenologique to read our top 10s and reviews.

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Emerging Talent: Daniel Stojcic

As the IWSC opens the Emerging Talent Awards for another year, we catch up with some of our 2022 winners to find out what they’ve been up to and for them to share a bit of advice for aspiring Emerging Talent winners.

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Wine news

Wine award entrant bottle collection at Wine Paris

Continuously looking for ways to support entrants to our awards, the IWSC is offering visitors and exhibitors attending February’s Wine Paris & Vinexpo Paris the opportunity to ‘drop off’ bottles entered to its 2023 wine awards

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Spirit news

Jimmy Harris - Spirits Judges' Top Picks

Discover the top spirits our judges rated the highest at our 2022 judging – here we discover what Jimmy Harris, educator, and co-founder of Glassmates, rated as his top picks.

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Spirit news

Joel Harrison - Spirits Judges' Top Picks

Discover the top spirits our judges rated the highest at our 2022 judging – here we discover what Joel Harrison, IWSC Judging Committee member, award-winning drinks writer and commentator, and whisky and fine spirits specialist.

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Wine news

Overview of the IWSCs wine judging in Georgia

Last month the IWSC visited Georgia for the first of its 2023 wine judging. Discover what our judges Sarah Abbott MW, Megan Clarke, Cat Lomax, Maggie Macpherson, and Salvatore Castano got up to in this great short film summarising the trip...

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IWSC news

Emerging Talent: Irem Eren

As the IWSC opens the Emerging Talent Awards for another year, we catch up with some of our 2022 winners to find out what they’ve been up to and for them to share a bit of advice for aspiring Emerging Talent winners.

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Spirit news

Colin Hampden-White - Spirits Judges' Top Picks

Discover the top spirits our judges rated the highest at our 2022 judging...here we discover what writer, presenter, photographer and IWSC judge, Colin Hampden-White, rated as his top picks.

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IWSC Market Insight: A deep dive into the ‘nolo’ category

The ‘nolo’ sector has come a long way since Ben Branson launched Seedlip in 2015. Lucy Shaw takes a deep dive into the category to sniff out the latest trends, see where it’s headed, and find out whether functionality will be key to its continued success

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Spirit news

Rosie Milsom - Spirits Judges' Top Picks

Discover the top spirits our judges rated the highest at our recent judging...here we discover what Rosie Milsom, Head of New Product Development at Atom Brands, rated as her top picks.

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Wine news

Georgia: discover what our judges got up to during our recent wine judging in Georgia

Here we hear from Megan about what the team of judges got up to during their visit to this historic country considered to be the 'cradle of wine'.

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