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The Spirits Business Awards 2021 winners

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The worthy winners of The Spirits Enterprise Awards 2021 had been topped throughout a packed ceremony in London yesterday (18 November).

Spirits Business Awards 2021
Scroll down to find the implausible winners of The Spirits Enterprise Awards 2021

The Spirits Enterprise Awards ceremony returned to its in-person format yesterday and welcomed greater than 80 trade friends to The Membership at The Ivy in London.

Now in its third yr, the awards cowl the whole lot from retail and advertising, sustainability and innovation, to tourism, merchandise and the individuals behind the manufacturers customers know and love.

Every nomination was judged by an unbiased panel of judges, comprising: David T Smith, spirits author, guide and co-founder of the Craft Distilling Expo; Bernadette Pamplin, freelance spirits author, choose and founding father of the Underneath the Ginfluence weblog; Matthew Frazer, head of UK and Europe at Liquor Bottle Corks & Closures; Ivan Dixon, unbiased spirits guide; and Melita Kiely, editor of The Spirits Enterprise.

Kiely stated: “We had been delighted to have the ability to host our annual awards in individual once more and rejoice some actually sensible winners.

“This yr’s award-winners are testomony to the high-standard of labor that continues throughout the spirits trade.

“Regardless of all of the challenges of the worldwide pandemic, it’s nice to see a lot innovation, charitable endeavours, environmental development and collaborations occurring. Congratulations to all of this yr’s winners.”

The official sponsor of this yr’s awards was Liquor Bottle Corks & Closures.

Further sponsors of the awards ceremony had been: Ty Nant Pure Mineral Water, Marqués de Cáceres, and Glencairn Crystal, who supplied the trophies.

Scroll under to find all of this yr’s winners, and see the December 2021 version of The Spirits Enterprise journal for an in-depth write-up on The Spirits Enterprise Awards 2021.


Spirits Retailer of the Yr – Grocery store

Winner: Waitrose

Spirits Retailer of the Yr – E-commerce

Winner: 31 Dover

Runner-up: The Whisky Change

Particular Commendation: Mash & Grape

Spirits Distributor of the Yr

Winner: Mangrove

Runner-up: Emporia Manufacturers

Spirits Bottler of the Yr

Winner: Contract Bottlers Glasgow

Finest New Advertising and marketing Marketing campaign

Bloom Gin

Finest Occasion

Winner: The Whisky Change Digital Rum Present 2021

Runner-up: Cape Byron Distillery for The Water of Life – A Whisky Movie

PR Firm of the Yr

Winner: Chapman Poole

Runner-up: Fourteen Ten

Particular Commendation: The Story


Distillery Sustainability Award

Winner: Flor de Caña

Runner-up: Tomatin Distillery

Particular Commendation: Belvedere Vodka

Moral Award

Winner: Flor de Caña

Runner-up: Jägermeister for The Lesbian Bar Venture

Innovation in Manufacturing

Winner: Seven Tails Distillers for Seven Tails XO

Runner-up: Larsen for Larsen Aqua Ignis

Particular Commendation: By no means By no means Distilling for Argo Gin

Innovation in Packaging

Winner: NIO Cocktails

Runner-up: Sterling Reserve Mix 7 Gaming Pack

Particular Commendation: Ecospirits


Distillery Shopper Expertise Award

Winner: El Tequileño Tequila

Runner-up: The Glenturret

Finest Distillery Services

Winner: The Glenturret

Runner-up: Gemma McColl

Cultural Contribution to the Spirits Business

Particular Commendation: Swedish Gin – Drinks, Distilleries and Dreamers


Finest New Product

Winner: NIO Cocktails

Runner-up: 20 Whiskies that Modified the World from The Whisky Change

Particular Commendation: The Spirit of the Underground by Bimber Distillery


Alan Lodge Younger Worldwide Drinks Author of the Yr Award

Winner: Felipe Schrieberg

Younger Achiever of the Yr

Winner: Charlotte Clark, proprietor of Pembrokeshire Gin

Runner-up: Gemma McColl, digital advertising govt at The Glenturret

Blender of the Yr

Winner: Victoria Eady Butler, grasp blender at Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey

Runner-up: Arnaud de Trabuc, founding father of Seven Tails Distillers

Distiller/Producer of the Yr

Winner: Tim Boast, By no means By no means Distilling

Runner-up: Alex Chasko, Teeling

Particular Commendation: Jorge Antonio Salles, El Tequileño Tequila

Lifetime Achievement Award

Winner: Lesley Gracie, founder and grasp distiller of Hendrick’s Gin

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