After an absence of two years, BC Distilled, Canada's largest spirits event devoted to local distilleries will happen in Vancouver on April 9.
Read moreNews, New Distilleries & International Women's Day
Distilleries make big funding announcements, forge sustainable partnerships and release inspiring new products + how you can #supportwomeninspirits year-round.
Read moreCanadian Whisky Awards
The 2021 Canadian Whisky Awards selected results have been announced. ADC has summarized the results with a focus on Canada’s artisan distillers.
Read moreApril 2020 News
The Definitive Guide to Canadian Distilleries by Davin de Kergommeaux (the Canadian Whisky Awards, author of Canadian Whisky) and Blair Phillips was recently published by Penguin Random House’s Appetite imprint.
Awards
Canadian artisan distilleries were among the winners at the 2020 World Whiskies Awards. Macaloney’s Caledonian won World’s Best New Make for its Peated Clearach and Best Canadian Single Cask Single Malt for its Invermallie Single Cask STR Red Wine Barrique Classic Single Malt Whisky. Shelter Point won Best Canadian Single Malt for its Old Vines Foch Reserve and Best Canadian Grain for its Smoke Point.
At the 2020 World Spirits Awards, Okanagan Spirits was named a World Class Distillery and won 14 medals, including nine gold medals.
Openings
Indigenous World, West Kelowna, B.C.
Artisan on the World Stage: B.C. distillers at global whisky festival
Whisky festivals have long been the domain of big brands, dominated by global Scotch, bourbon and Canadian whisky companies. But the 15th annual Victoria Whisky Festival and 10th anniversary Canadian Whisky Awards had a notable flavour of B.C.’s artisan, local distilleries.
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