Canadian 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.

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April 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

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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