Experts have carefully analysed all the IWSC 2020 results, looking at producers’ medals, scores and other achievements, in order to find the top distilleries across eight key categories, including worldwide gin, vodka and Scotch whisky.
Can it be a hat-trick of wins for William Grant & Sons as the most Outstanding Spirits Producer in the world? There’ll be many folk in North Lanarkshire hoping for just that as the winners of the International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC) Spirit Producer Awards are announced on November 18.
The Outstanding Spirits Producer is the biggest award of the night for spirits producers at the IWSC Awards and it has been won by William Grant & Sons for the past two years consecutively (four years in total). So can they win three on the trot?
William Grant & Sons accepting their award at IWSC’s 50th anniversary awards banquet
Following the announcement of the spirit trophies in September, the final shortlists for the Spirit Producer Awards, which recognise the best distilleries across the world, was recently announced by the IWSC.
Experts have carefully analysed all the IWSC 2020 results, looking at producers’ medals, scores and other achievements, in order to find the top distilleries across eight key categories, including worldwide gin, vodka and Scotch whisky.
“Producer trophies are the pinnacle of achievement”, said IWSC head of tastings Pip Mortimer. “They reward the overall portfolio, ethos and achievement of companies that enter the IWSC.”
The winners of these awards will then be put forward for the overall Outstanding Spirits Producer trophy.
Four Pillars: up for a gong as Worldwide Gin Producer
Meet the nominees for the IWSC Spirit Producer Awards:
UK Gin Producer
- 58 Gin
- City of London Distilling
- Wessex Distillery
- JJ Whitely/Whitley Neil
Worldwide Gin Producer
- Four Pillars Distillery
- Kangaroo Island Distillery
- Herno Gin
- Zamora Company
Vodka Producer
- Dom Wina
- Halewood International
- Prodal ’94
Liqueur Producer
- Bimmerle Private Distillery
- Mozart Distillery
- Hombo Shuzo
- Marie Brizard Wine & Spirits
Rum Producer
- Groupe BBS
- La Maison & Velier
- R L Seale
- Worthy Park Estate
Brandy Producer
- Chateau de Breuil
- Maison Boutillier & Cie
- Chateau de Pellehaut Armagnac
- Bodegas Fundador
Worldwide Whiskey Producer
- Kavalan Distillery
- Sazerac Company
- Teerenpeli Panimo & Tislaamo
- The Lark Distillery
Scotch Whisky Producer
- Chivas Brothers
- William Grant & Sons
- Distell
- Dewars Scotch Whisky
- Whyte & Mackay
The winners of the Spirit Producer Awards will be announced at the IWSC 2020 Awards Ceremony on 18 November. This year, IWSC is taking the celebration online with a virtual broadcast on YouTube Premiere. It will be filmed at the renowned English wine estate of Ridgeview and will be produced by one of the foremost documentary filmmakers in the UK – a producer who has worked with Pink Floyd, Blur and the Sex Pistols.
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