Recent Awards Articles

The Spirited Awards Just Proved It For two decades, the drinks world has looked to the Spirited Awards to tell it who's doing things right. This year, the conversation has shifted in ways that would have surprised even the most well-traveled bar enthusiast a decade ago. The Middle East and Africa

How a Goa Distillery Is Rewriting the Rules of Single Malt For decades, the conversation around the world's finest single malts has started and ended in Scotland. Maybe a nod to Japan. Perhaps a reluctant mention of Ireland. India? That wasn't even in the conversation. Until now. At the World

When people think of bourbon royalty, they think Kentucky. They think of storied distilleries with century-old recipes and limestone water and marketing campaigns that cost more than some small towns spend on their entire budgets. They do not typically think of Atlanta. That may be changing. Sh

The whisky world got two new legends on March 25, 2026, when the Whisky Magazine Hall of Fame welcomed Serge Valentin and Tadashi Sakuma into its ranks. The ceremony took place at the Waldorf in London, where the global whisky community had gathered to celebrate the World Whiskies Awards — one of t

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A Spirit From the Sugarcane Fields of North India Is Turning Heads at the Most Respected Rum Competitions on the Planet For most American drinkers, rum means the Caribbean. It means Jamaica, Barbados, Cuba. It means molasses and heat and centuries of a very specific tradition. The idea that a bott

How WildRye Distilling Became the Most Decorated Distillery in the State There's a distillery tucked into Bozeman, Montana, that most people outside the Northern Rockies haven't heard of yet. That's about to change. WildRye Distilling just walked away from one of the most competitive regional spir

A small craft distillery from the Pacific Northwest just pulled off something no one in the spirits world has ever done There are a lot of whiskey competitions out there. Some matter. Some don't. But when Whisky Magazine hands out its World Whiskies Awards in London, the spirits industry pays atte

Every year, the World Whiskies Awards cuts through the noise of an overcrowded market and points drinkers toward what actually deserves their attention. In 2026, two small batch bourbons rose above every other competitor to claim the top spots in their respective categories — one from the heartland

Most people think bourbon is the top dog of American whiskey. And for good reason — it dominates bar shelves, gets the most press, and carries the most cultural weight. But there is an older style sitting quietly in its shadow that has been around longer than bourbon ever has. Corn whiskey predates