Bartender Spirits Awards
The Bartender Spirits Awards recognizes, encourages, promotes and celebrates excellence in the U.S. drinks industry. The aim of the spirits competition is to provide independent and honest reviews for brands targeting the U.S. bar trade. The judging panel consists of some of the most renowned names in the U.S. bar industry, all of them with extensive expertise within the on-premise industry. The result will be a relevant and practical source of reference for bartenders, bar managers, bar owners and other industry professionals when making purchasing decisions for their establishments. Winning a Bartender Spirits Award is a mark of excellence that is recognized across the bar industry. Especially if you are a spirits producer located outside of the United States, this is the perfect chance to win recognition for your spirits within the U.S. marketplace.
London Spirits Competition
London Spirits Competition rewards spirits that are made well, taste great, offer great value for money and stand out on the shelf. Winning LSC Gold clearly demonstrates the trade how well the spirits will be perceived in the market and will give the trade a very good indicator to stock that spirits. The London Spirits Competition looks to recognise, reward and help promote spirits brands that have successfully been created to identify with and target a specific spirits drinker. For any spirit brand to earn its place on a retailer’s shelf or a restaurant’s spirits list - and then vitally stay there - they need to be marketable and consumer-driven and not just produced in the general hope it can find enough people willing to sell and buy it.
USA Spirits Ratings
USA Spirits Ratings is the leading spirits ratings in the USA with the rationale to rate spirits per the preferences of the consumer and trade and rewarding spirits as such. Spirits entries will be judged by their Quality, Value and Packaging. For domestic and international distilleries looking to gain wider recognition within the U.S. marketplace, the USA Spirits Ratings event is a fantastic opportunity to get in front of the industry’s most influential tastemakers.
The Global Spirits Masters
Launched in 2008, The Global Spirits Masters rates and rewards excellence in spirits production, giving brands key differentiation in a crowded market. The Global Spirits Masters is unique in its exclusive use of completely independent expert judges, including journalists, retail buyers, bartenders, and educators. Judges can award Silver, Gold, and Master medals, as well as additional trophies for outstanding excellence. The results of each competition are published in The Spirits Business magazine, which with its monthly global circulation of 13,000 copies, guarantees that entrants’ medal wins are visible to a truly international and industry-focused audience.
San Francisco World Spirits Competition
Founded in 2000, the San Francisco World Spirits Competition (SFWSC) has become the most respected and influential spirits competition in the world. Emphasizing integrity and impartiality, the SFWSC takes great pride in ensuring that all entries are treated with equal care and consideration by their panels of carefully selected spirits-industry experts. Their medals are valuable sales tools that can garner a flood of attention from press, industry experts, and consumers.
International Wine & Spirit Competition
Entries into the International Wine & Spirit Competition are received from nearly 90 countries worldwide and each sample is judged according to its class and treated with the same care and consideration in the Competition’s dedicated tasting premises. The Competition is proud to set the international benchmark for quality remaining unique in the crowded world of drinks competitions with dedicated tasting premises, a permanent onsite cellar and over 400 global experts judging products for 7 months of the year. Recognising & rewarding the very best in the wine and spirits industry.
Denver International Spirits Competition
This double blind competition will be based on a 100 point scale and they will judge spirits (fairly) by price categories. Denver International Spirits Competition aims to judge based on the highest standards and build a reputation that rivals current competitions that are held in California, New York as well as London. They are the most cost effective International Spirits Competition on the planet! Judges will cast their votes for the best spirit entries in as many as 102 different categories. They will award medals for first (GOLD), second (SILVER) and third (BRONZE) place for each qualifying category and best of show.
SIP Awards
The SIP Awards stands apart as the only internationally recognized consumer judging spirits competition. Catering to the opinions and palates of the discerning public, the SIP Awards presents a unique, spirit judging competition, unaffected by industry bias. This pragmatic and refreshing model of evaluation provides an honest stage for feedback and recognition where top brands showcase their achievements. Winning a SIP Awards has become synonymous with elite quality as judged by the selective tastes of the consumer. There is no better salute to superior quality and fine spirits, than winning the consumer panel’s vote in a completely blind tasting.
Microliquor Spirits Awards
MicroLiquor Spirit Awards sponsored by Flowdesign is the world’s first spirits competition for small brands. The MicroLiquor Awards are unique in that entry to the competition is tailored exclusively to small and emerging brands in the marketplace. Brands selling less than 50,000 cases annually are eligible to enter. Entrepreneurs, craft distillers, brand managers, marketing professionals and distilleries have the opportunity to gain entrepreneurial thought and insight to their brands while enjoying the benefits of competition. For a small emerging brand, this is a great launching pad to receive confidential feedback surrounding growing the brand along with launch efforts into new markets.
Ultimate Beverage Challenge
Ultimate Beverage Challenge’s mission is to create and establish a new and higher standard of evaluation for spirits and wine that provides accurate, meaningful and useful results in recognizing and promoting the quality of beverage alcohol products. It accomplishes this by the integrity of its people and approach, its innovative and exacting methodology, and through the credibility of its results. Ultimate Beverage Challenge’s methodology raises the standard for competitive beverage evaluation by instituting more rigorous judging. Each product is reviewed under ideal tasting conditions over a period of time that allows the product to express its best characteristics. Each product is evaluated blind by panels in multi-stages assessments to remove any inherent or individual bias.
The Washington Cup Spirits Competition
For more than five years, The Washington Cup Spirits Competition has sought out the best in American made spirits and liqueurs. With a dramatically expansive marketplace filled with new American made spirits, the Washington Cup Competition seeks to offer an opportunity for the best among U.S. distilleries to demonstrate their skills and the excellence of their products on a level playing field. By creating the Washington Cup, their goal is to bring attention to new and established high quality American spirits and liqueurs.
International Spirits Challenge
The International Spirits Challenge is the most authoritative, respected and influential spirits competition in the world. Now in its 22nd year, the ISC is the premier event in promoting outstanding quality spirits from across the globe. The competition is founded on a rigorous and independent judging process, which serves to encourage the high caliber of spirits, designs and campaigns entered into the competition each year. Receiving more than 1,300 entries from nearly 70 countries worldwide makes the ISC a truly global competition. It is supported by many of the world's leading spirits producers as the international standard for quality and excellence.
Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Wine and Spirit Competition
The Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Wine & Spirit Competition is a unique event and the first of its kind. For 9 years now, the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Wine & Spirit Competition has been the guide to quality international wines and spirits for the booming Asian market. The competition offers winners year-round marketing support, including an on-going package of promotions and tastings at many of Asia’s most important trade and consumer events, as well as focused tastings with key decisions makers and buyers.
San Diego Spirits Festival International Spirits Competition
The 2019 San Diego Spirits Festival International Spirits Competition is open for entries from emerging craft distillers, American merchant bottlers and large distillers alike, the competition will bring renowned experts from the worlds of spirits and hospitality together to determine the best tasting spirits in a blind analysis which will be held at the 11th San Diego Spirits Festival on August 24, 2019. The integrity of San Diego Spirits Festival International Spirits Competition starts with the quality and expertise of their Esteemed Judges. Their Judges have a wide variety of experiences and backgrounds and this facilitates a true, unbiased quality of judging of all the brands that have entered.
Thessaloniki International Wine & Spirits Competition
The ‘Thessaloniki International Wine and Spirits Competition’ is constantly growing and so is the amount of participating wine and spirits producers and the quality of the samples submitted, giving strong evidence that is has become a major institution for Greek wine and Spirits. Furthermore, the medals of the competition are acknowledged by both professional and consumers in Greece and abroad.
The Proof Awards
The distinguished PR%F Awards program is powered by Food and Beverage Magazine and Delta Airlines Sky Club. This double-blind spirits, wine and mixers competition provides a showcase to more than 40 judges – all buyers in the spirits/wine industry. The PR%F Judges comes from across the US – The PR%F judges are mainstream liquor buyers, distributors, on and off premise as well as, large retailers with buying decision capability of over $500M. The 2019 judging panel hailed from different hospitality arenas from states all over the country including Hawaii. They included buyers from, Food and Beverage Magazine, Delta Sky Club, Green Valley Ranch, Opulent Wine & Spirits, The NEAT Glass, Preferred Public Relations, FB Podcast Network, Constellation Catering.