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The Yamazaki of Japan, champion from 2021, took the runner-up spot while fellow Japanese brand Chichibu completed the podium. The Most Admired Scotch Whisky went to Springbank at number four while Redbreast was the highest ranking Irish whiskey at 13th on the list. Having initially launched in 2021, The World’s Most Admired Whiskies was established to determine the trade’s 50 most revered brands from across…

De Witte was known to the trade as a gentleman and subtle operator. It’s no surprise that the near 350-year-old, family-owned company opted for a similarly smooth, equable character in Leo Evers to succeed in one of the biggest roles in European spirits. “It sounds like a cliché, but I like to spend the first 100 days in a new role observing the position and analysing…

Fawn American to own a major spirits brand – and the person who unveiled the truth about Jack Daniel’s black master distiller. Shay Waterworth meets a woman on a mission to change the face of American whiskey History in the making Fawn Weaver is tenacious. Having entered the spirits industry less than a decade ago, she now owns several distilleries across different continents. Her flagship…

According to the group’s latest performance report, sales in China for Q1 FY25 were down -26% due to weak consumer demand over the summer particularly for Martell cognac and Scotch. “Further to the announcement by MOFCOM (The Ministry of Commerce, People’s Republic of China) for the implementation of temporary duty deposits effective from Friday 11 October, actions are being taken to mitigate the impact on…

Between 19–23 October 2024, as the official hotel partner of The World’s 50 Best Bars, Madrid Edition will welcome internationally recognised bartenders across its venues including the Punch Room. Among the guests is Giacomo Giannotti of Paradiso, Harrison Ginsberg of Overstory and Alonso Palomino of Lady Bee. The series will also include takeovers from friends of Edition including mixologists Julie Reiner and Izzy Tulloch of…

Walking into Ben Branson’s Sylva gives Ex-Machina vibes. Except it’s not AI robots being created at his lab, it’s aged non-alcoholic spirits. Branson, founder of Diageo non-alcoholic spirit Seedlip, launched his latest project, called Sylva, at the tail end of the summer. Sylva is a non-alcoholic distillery and maturation lab at his home in Essex, UK. Since the development of the non-alcoholic spirits category, recreating…

Gleneagles x Glenfiddich Centenary Reserve has been aged in a single refill sherry butt and just 14 bottles have been made available to buy exclusively at the hotel. “Over the past couple of years, we’ve been working behind the scenes with the Glenfiddich team, with the joint aim of crafting the ultimate anniversary single malt,” said Daniel Baernreuther, general manager at The Gleneagles Hotel. “This…

The symposium is designed to highlight the quality of Mediterranean wines and will contribute to the dissemination of the category, with a focus on research and training. Different wineries from the main wine regions of the Mediterranean will take part complete with a lineup of expert speakers throughout the day. Perelada, based in the Empordà region of northern Spain, was named in The World’s Most…

This is also the seventh consecutive year that these two wines are distributed with La Place de Bordeaux in Europe and Asia. Nicolás Catena Zapata has also launched a new label that pays tribute to the story behind the wine and celebrates the pioneering work of Catena Zapata, The Catena Institute of Wine, and Nicolás Catena himself. In 2023, Catena Zapata was voted #1 in…

Each member of The World’s 50 Best Bars Academy, made up of more than 700 anonymous industry experts from around the world, was asked to name the one bar where they have experienced the most outstanding hospitality in the past 18 months. This is one of two individual awards announced in the buildup to this year’s 50 Best awards ceremony in Madrid, where they will…