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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.

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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).

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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Forbes

The World’s Best Bourbon—According To The IWSC

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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DMARGE

Israeli whisky Moses would part a sea for arrives Down Under

The enterprising distillery’s been awarded with the highest accolades in the industry. Its Young Single Malt “The Last One” won the Golden Medal at the International Wine & Spirits Competition in 2019.

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The Drinks Report

One Sage & Apple Gin launches in Tesco

IWSC Gold award-winning One Gin launched One Sage & Apple Gin last spring, which went on to win awards and debut successfully through Craft Gin Club, the UK’s largest gin subscription club.

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