Cooley Cleans Wins Big at 2009 World Whiskies Awards

Cooley Distillery has won a record six awards including “World’s Best Irish Single Malt Whiskey“ and “World’s Best Single Grain Whisky” at the World Whiskies Awards in London.

Ireland’s only independent whiskey distiller, Cooley Distillery named World Distiller of the Year last November at the International Wine and Spirit Competition has now added a further six top accolades to its growing collection of International awards.

Cooley’s Tyrconnell Single Malt won the “World’s Best Irish Single Malt” award for its Single Cask offering and its Greenore Single Grain 15 Year Old Irish whiskey picked up the “World’s Best Single Grain Whisky” award.  The World Whiskies Awards are adjudicated by an illustrious panel of whisky experts brought together by the The Whisky Magazine.

More than 150 whiskies from around the world were entered into the awards and all entries have to survive three rounds of tasting to win the coveted title of “Best in the World”.

Cooley also won four sub categories including –

· “Best Irish Blended Whiskey Age 13-20 Yrs” – Kilbeggan 15 Yr Old

· “Best Irish Single Malt Non-Aged” – Connemara Peated Single Malt

· “Best Irish Single Malt 12 Yrs & Under” – Tyrconnell 10 Yr Old Sherry Finish

· “Best Irish Single Malt 13 -20 Yrs Old” – Tyrconnell Single Cask

The judging process started with the independent panel receiving samples and judging blind. This enabled the panel to whittle down the large number of entries to a select few that were then tasted by a specially invited panel from the International Whisky Industry on the eve of Whisky Live London in February. The winners went back to the editorial team of The Whisky Magazine to do battle for the overall title.

Sharon Feiereisen

Photos courtesy of Cooley.

April 23rd, 2009 by Beverage Blogger | Posted in News | (0)