One of the most important global judging events in the spirits industry is undoubtedly the International Wine & Spirits Competition (IWSC) . This year, its US judging session will take place from June 4 to 7, 2025, in Bardstown, Kentucky , and will include Bill Lumsden , Director of Distilling, Whisky Creation, and Whisky Stocks at the Glenmorangie Company
If you’re still laughing at stories of Chinese wine drinkers ordering Lafite, and then diluting it with Coca-Cola, you’re out of date. Chinese taste has become more sophisticated, and more educated, and it’s happened very quickly.
I recently tried some of them at an event put on by the International Wine and Spirit Competition.
The wine world changes at a glacial pace but in one area there have been dizzyingly fast developments: we’re talking about ‘low and no alcohol wine’, as it’s known. You’ll have noticed that most big supermarket branches now have a section dedicated to wines that have reduced alcohol, or have been stripped of their alcohol entirely.
It has been an intense 7 months since the International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC) started its judging . With 7 judges per panel, 3 panels per day, 4 days a week, over 300 judges from over 30 countries have finally tasted all the wines & spirits entered into this year’s competition. With all the medals having now been released, today sees the announcement of
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The IWSC Wine Communicator 2022 - sponsored by Veronafiere - aims to recognise an individual who is making an exceptional contribution towards promoting wine to a consumer audience. The 2022 shortlist is announced...
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
Our Wine Judging continues with tasting entries from one of the world’s biggest wine-producing countries. Following two days of judging Australian wine, we spoke to our experts about the standout regions and grape varieties from Down Under.
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