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25th March 2015 |
The BenRiach
Distillery Company has been named Global
Whisky Distiller of the Year at the 2015
Icons of Whisky Awards.
 The
BenRiach Distillery Company has been
named Global Whisky Distiller of the
Year at the 2015 Icons of Whisky Awards.
The announcement was made earlier this
week during a ceremony at London's
Waldorf Hilton on the eve of Whisky Live
London.
This latest award follows hard on the
heels of BenRiach winning the "Icons
of Scotland" Whisky Distiller
of the Year earlier this year.
First held in 2007, the Icons of Whisky
Awards are Whisky Magazine's awards,
searching for the very best whiskies in
the world.
And BenRiach had double cause for
celebration last night, as it won Best
Speyside Single Malt for the BenRiach 16
years old produced at its Elgin
distillery.
The winners were decided in online
voting by writers, whisky producers and
other industry leaders along with the
editorial staff of Whisky Magazine.
They were selected from three regional
rounds of Icons awards covering
Scotland, the US, and the Rest of the
World.
This year's competition saw more than
300 whiskies put through their paces
during three rounds of rigorous tastings
to win the coveted titles of the
'World's Best'
Founded in 2004 under the leadership of
whisky veteran Billy Walker and his
South African investors Wayne Kieswetter
and Geoff Bell, the
Edinburgh-headquartered company has
grown with impressive speed, acquiring
BenRiach that year and turning it into
one of Scotland’s most admired
distilleries.
It acquired GlenDronach Distillery in
2008 and Glenglassaugh Distillery in
2013 as well as a bottling plant at
Newbridge outside Edinburgh. All three
distilleries produce unique
award-winning whiskies with
extraordinary depth, balance and
character.
Billy Walker said: "It’s a pretty
amazing achievement for a small
privately-owned independent company to
win this prestigious global award. I’m
especially proud that it highlights the
innovations we’ve created at our three
distilleries and it also quite properly
recognises the high-quality, committed
team we have built at our four
locations.
"We’re currently trading in some 40
countries worldwide with other emerging
markets entering the negotiation stage,
so I believe the future for all our
brands is tremendously exciting."
In August the company posted record
pre-tax profits of £8.9m for 2013
boosted by unprecedented demand for its
high-end whiskies in Asia, North
America, Russia and Europe.
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