Whisky Focus - Gold For Benromach 10 At San Francisco World Spirits Competition

San Francisco triumph for the classic Speyside whisky Benromach 10 Years Old

Benromach’s excellent flagship 10 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky has picked up another gold medal, this time from one of the world’s most prestigious spirits competitions, the San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

Judges at the 2015 San Francisco World Spirits Competition awarded the coveted accolade to the classic 10 year old Speyside whisky which was produced at the Benromach Distillery in Forres.

This year more than 1,500 spirits were judged in the competition, held at the Hotel Nikko in Downtown San Francisco.

The spirits were evaluated by 41 leading professionals and judged in blind tastings which the organisers say and I am sure many of you will agree makes the competition one of the most "reputable and recognized … in the spirits industry".

Ewen Mackintosh, Chief Operating Officer of malt whisky specialists Gordon & MacPhail, which owns Benromach, said: "We are naturally delighted that Benromach 10 Years Old has been recognised as a very high-quality product in such a prestigious competition.

"The judging is rigorous and challenging because the individual judges really know their stuff, and it is heartening that Benromach 10 Years Old has been so well received."

Meanwhile Benromach Organic, the world's first organic whisky which meets rigorous UK Soil Association standards for growing the ingredients, distillation, maturation and bottling, picked up a silver medal in the same competition.

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