SAZERAC COMPANY NAMED AMERICAN WHISKEY PRODUCER OF THE YEAR AT 2024 INTERNATIONAL SPIRITS CHALLENGE
Along with the highest honor, Elmer T. Lee Single Barrel Bourbon was awarded the celebrated “Trophy” award, the very best medal awarded throughout the tasting class
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Sazerac Firm, one of many world’s largest distilled spirits firms, has been named the American Whiskey Producer of the Yr on the 2024 Worldwide Spirits Problem (ISC) for the fifth consecutive 12 months. Now in its twenty ninth 12 months, the ISC is a premier competitors based on a rigorous and unbiased judging course of. The competitors, which receives hundreds of entries from greater than 70 international locations worldwide, really promotes excellent high quality spirits from throughout the globe.
Decided by a weighted factors system, the American Whiskey Producer of the Yr Award is an esteemed recognition honoring the very best performing spirits producers in a single class. Successful a complete of 46 medals throughout all manufacturers, Sazerac Firm received 32 medals within the American Whiskey class.
“We’re humbled to obtain the American Whiskey Producer of the Yr award for the fifth consecutive 12 months,” stated Harlen Wheatley, Sazerac Grasp Distiller. “This award is extra than simply an honor- it’s a testomony to our group’s relentless dedication, craftsmanship, and fervour for making high quality spirits. As we have a good time this achievement, we’re reminded that consistency and innovation go hand in hand with creating award-winning whiskey.”
On the prime of the class was Elmer T. Lee Single Barrel Bourbon, which was awarded a prestigious “trophy” award, the very best medal awarded throughout the tasting class. Different whiskeys in Sazerac’s portfolio that took dwelling prime medals within the competitors embrace:
- Gold
- 1792 Aged 12 years
- 1792 Bottled in Bond
- 1792 Full Proof
- 1792 Single Barrel
- 1792 Small Batch
- Benchmark Single Barrel
- Benchmark Small Batch
- E.H. Taylor Jr. Single Barrel
- Eagle Uncommon 10-year-old
- Eagle Uncommon 17-year-old
- Sazerac 18
- Sazerac Rye
- Stagg Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
- W. L. Weller 12-year-old
- W. L. Weller Vintage 107
- W. L. Weller C.Y.P.B.
- W. L. Weller Full Proof
- W. L. Weller Single Barrel
- W. L. Weller Particular Reserve
Extra spirits throughout the full Sazerac portfolio that acquired prime honors embrace:
All spirits entered into the ISC are judged over a rigorous 23-day means of blind tastings by greater than 75 revered and skilled trade professionals. Every choose assesses the merchandise’ aroma, look, style and end, which is mixed to find out which medal could be awarded.
Outcomes from the 2024 Worldwide Spirits Problem could be discovered right here.
About Sazerac:
With over 400 years of historical past, Sazerac is without doubt one of the world’s largest distilled spirits firms. Now within the fourth technology of the present household possession, Sazerac strives every day to convey the best spirits to shoppers and communities world wide.
Over 500 of the world’s most extraordinary manufacturers are a part of the Sazerac portfolio, together with Buffalo Hint Bourbon, Eagle Uncommon, Weller, The Final Drop Distillers, Fireball Cinnamon Whisky, Southern Consolation, Wheatley Vodka, Meyers’s Rum, White X Cognac, Sazerac de Forge Cognac, Paddy’s Irish Whiskey, and plenty of extra.
Sazerac can also be the steward of many effective distilleries internationally, together with Buffalo Hint Distillery in Kentucky, United States; Domaine Sazerac de Segonzac in Cognac, France; Paul John Distillery in Goa, India; and Lough Gill Distillery in County Sligo, Eire. Extra spectacular places could be present in New Orleans, Montréal, London, Cork and Sydney, to call a number of.
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