International Sugarcane Spirits Awards

17/02/2022

This year's Canne d'Or goes to Famille Ricci's OVNI 2, which has also been awarded Best Multiregion Blend and Best Independent Bottling. Congratulations to the happy winners for their great production.

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17/02/2022

Extra extra ! Read all about it ! ISS Awards 2021 edition's results have been publicized. Head over now to https://www.iss-awards.com/tasting-awards-results-2021/ to discover all winners.

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03/02/2021

Breaking news ! ISS Awards 2020 edition's results have been publicized. Rush now to https://www.iss-awards.com/tasting-awards-results-2020/ to discover all winners.

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13/10/2020

Proud to be spoken of in
Peru ! This what "International" stands for in the IssA concept...
https://cocktail.pe/iss-awards-la-competicion-ha-empezado/

13/08/2020

Thanks to all of you, sorry for missing your language in this post, you all are too numerous, but you get the intention !!!
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01/08/2020

Dear brand owners, entries to ISS Awards are still open. We have decided to extend the registration phase until the 31st of August. This might help a lot of you finding time to gather all infos, make decisions and apply without having to rush.

Again, may the best ones win !

Competition details : https://www.iss-awards.com/tasting-awards

01/08/2020

Dear brand owners, entries to ISS Awards are still open. We have decided to extend the registration phase until the 31st of August. This might help a lot of you finding time to gather all infos, make decisions and apply without having to rush.

May the best ones win !

Competition details : https://www.iss-awards.com/tasting-awards

12/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Olivier Chapt

"The qualities of taster and blend creator lead Olivier Chapt as Spirit-Consultant in historic production countries of rum producers in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean where he travels every year. Within the Gensac Oenology Laboratory, he is the conductor of a team of highly active technicians and researchers who analyze and decrypt all the aromatic compounds contained in spirits produced around the world."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/olivier-chapt/

12/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Nicholas Feris

"Nicholas has been a rum enthusiast and educator for over a decade. In 2009, he established Seattle’s first rum society, The Rum Collective; it is the longest running of its kind in the USA. He’s hosted over 100 educational rum tasting events and has been directly responsible for the successful entrance of dozens of rums into Washington State, Michigan and Vancouver, BC, Canada."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/nicholas-feris/

More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

12/07/2020

• Meet our judges : John Gibbons

"John’s desire to learn and experience all of what is involved in bringing cane to glass has taken him to rum education programs, events, distilleries, and rum and sugar production operations across the Caribbean and beyond. After years as a rum collector and enthusiast, John began judging regularly for international rum festivals and competitions starting with the Ministry of Rum Festival in San Francisco in 2010. "

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/john-gibbons/

More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

12/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Benoit Desprey

"His passion for rum was born in 1990 in Marie-Galante. This trip marked the start of an impressive collection of bottles. Over the years, he's explored each country, each distillery in search of the most beautiful wonders of the world. According to him, it is more than an evidence it is a passion."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/benoit-desprey/

More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

12/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Maxence Traverse

"He founded the Tiki rum bar called “HONI HONI Tiki Cocktail Lounge”, the first Tiki bar in Asia, with the largest rum selection in Asia. His place has won many awards like top 50 Asia for many years, top 100 World for few years and many HK & Asian Awards."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/maxence-traverse/

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12/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Johnny Drejer

"Previously been judging rum competitions in Miami, Berlin and Copenhagen, he is primarily known in the rum community for publishing the “Hydrometer method” on the Internet. A method that allows people, in a cheap easy way, to measure how much assumed sugar that has been added to some rums."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/johnny-drejer/

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12/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Rojita Tiwari

"After heading the editorial of India’s oldest drinks magazine for almost a decade, she established Drinks & Destinations in 2014, an award-winning beverage platform that offers news, views, podcasts and stories from the world of drinks, luxury travel, and hospitality. Drinks & Destinations also hosts and curates events and offers consultancy, brand training, tastings and social media marketing. "

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/rojita-tiwari/

More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

12/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Atsushi Nakayama

"Atsushi Nakayama runs a rum bar – Bar Lamp – in Ginza Tokyo. He has worked as a bartender for 25 years after experienced several hotel bars. A variety of rums from all over the world are actively introduced here and this unique style is welcomed because bars specialized rums are still limited in Japan. When Japan Rum Society established in 2008, he was one of the starting-up members. "

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/atsushi-nakayama/

More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

11/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Nando Imamura

"After having provided excellent services for 17 years in the mixology from Brazil to Japan, Australia and Hong Kong, this is in Paris where you can join the one and only Nando Imamura on his new journey since 2018 where he dives deep in his roots working behind the bar scenes in the Brazilian Japanese joint “Uma Nota” located in the heart of the city down in Sentier."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/nando-imamura/

More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

11/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Ivar de Laat

"Ivar’s rum exploration began in Holland in the early 2000’s, turning into a major passion after moving to Canada in 2007. From there he started increasing his knowledge by diving into online rum groups, researching articles and books and later attending rum festivals and visiting distilleries around the world."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/ivar-de-laat/

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11/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Alexandre Beudet

"Passionate about rum and computers, he decided to combine his passions and launch the ExcellenceRhum.Com site. The philosophy of the site has always been to make available to the greatest number of rums around the world."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/alexandre-beudet/

More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

10/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Oriol Elias

"He is a rum lover, a tiki expert, a self-described “Rum & Tiki Bartender” based in Barcelona, Spain. As one of Spain’s premier tiki bartenders, Oriol has spent the last 10 plus years honing his craft at a number of Barcelona rum and tiki bars including Tahiti and Caribbean Club."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/oriol-elias/

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10/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Kristina Wolf

"Kristina Wolf is an international wine and spirits judge. With over 30 years of hospitality industry experience, specialist shop and the wine and spirits business, she also offers consulting for wineries and distilleries, importers and the European Union in the preparation of legislation on spirit drinks"

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/kristina-wolf/

More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

10/07/2020

Meet our judges: Matt Pietrek

"Matt Pietrek began his cocktail wonkery with a modest home bar that soon grew out of control, leading him to revive a long-dormant writing career – this time about cocktails and spirits rather than computers. In the decade since, he’s become one of the genre’s most respected writers. "

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/matt-pietrek/

More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

09/07/2020

• Meet our judge : Daniel Nunez

"Daniel is a true rum geek, flavour nerd and entrepreneur. At the age of 23(2004) he opened his first lounge- and cocktail bar, with a heavy focus on rum both in the bar and the kitchen. After running for only a few years, the bar already had one of the worlds largest selection of rum, more than 150 expressions back in 2006, which was all the rum that was found on the Danish market."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/daniel-nunez/

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09/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Keegan Menezes

"Keegan Menezes started out as a cocktail bartender when he was in Oxford at university, although he left his professional cocktail making career behind he has remained part of the London Cocktail bar scene. He is known for his depth of knowledge across all spirits categories including and his favourite and the best spirit – R(h)um."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/keegan-menezes/

More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

09/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Leah van Deventer

"Based in Cape Town, Leah’s slurped her way through 40-odd countries in the name of research, accumulating various accolades long the way … most recently winning Media Contributor of the Year at the 2019 South African BAR Awards and being voted among DrinksFeed’s Top 20 Most Influential Cocktail Personalities in South Africa in 2020."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/leah-van-deventer/

More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

09/07/2020

• Meet our judges : Marco Graziano

"His website Leviedelrum.it became a point of reference and meeting for passionates from each part of the world. Many of these rum lovers take part to his tasting itineraries, they attend his master classes and they also enjoy the travels he organises to discover the Caribbean distilleries."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/marco-graziano/

More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

09/07/2020

• Meet our judges #18: Ian Burrell

"Co founder of IssA, Ian is one of the most travelled figures within the drinks industry, the award winning “EduTainer”. He has redefined the definition of an international spirits ambassador. An ex professional basketball player in the UK and international recording artist, he has now established himself as the world’s ONLY recognised Global Ambassador for the rum category."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/ian-burrell/

More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

09/07/2020

• Meet our judges #17 : Thanos Prunarus

"Thanos Prunarus has been working as a bartender since 1999. In 2009 he opened his own bar called Baba Au Rum. An institute that changed the history of the Athenian and Greek bar scene but mostly changed the way that Athenians drink."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/thanos-prunarus/

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09/07/2020

• Meet our judges #16 : Mauricio Maia

"Affectionate, researcher and teacher for more than 20 years, is one of the most requested speakers about cachaça in the world, and professor of the most important schools in the area, such Mackenzie University, CanaBrasil, ProDrinks and SENAC."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/mauricio-maia/

More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

06/07/2020

All you want to know...

Topic: Introduction to the International Sugarcane Spirits Awards Guest Speaker: Ian Burrell, Cyrille Hugon, and Cyrille Mald What You'll Learn: The International Sugarcane Spirits Awards (ISS Awards) is a promising new competition aiming to become the world’s leading authority on sugarcane spirit...

06/07/2020

Tonite (today for westerners) we explain it all to Rum Lab.

05/07/2020

Thanks to the Rum Lab...

Writer (Iconic Whisky, Iconic Rum - soon), columnist (La R***e du Vin de France the leading Wine & Spirit magazine since 1927, Rumporter, etc.) and judge in international rum & spirits competitions.

03/07/2020

Dear brand owners, entries to ISS Awards are now open. Please apply until 31st of July. May the best ones win !

Competition details : https://www.iss-awards.com/tasting-awards

02/07/2020

• Meet our judges #15 Laurent Cuvier
"Laurent is first and foremost a sugarcane spirit lover. His passion started close to ten years ago and he never stopped enjoying and learning since then."
https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/laurent-cuvier/
More updates about our Experts panel to come regularly, stay tuned.

02/07/2020

• Meet our judges #14 EMILIANO FERNÁNDEZ-PEÑA

"Emiliano is a Rum enthusiast that as a journalist, marketer, speaker and bartender has been dedicated to promote the rum category around Spain and Latin America over the last seven years."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/emiliano-fernandez-pena/

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02/07/2020

• Meet our judges #13 ROBERT BURR
"Robert A. Burr is a long-time rum collector, a writer, promoter and entrepreneur. Since 2009, along with his wife Robin, he hosts The Miami Rum Renaissance Festival in South Florida and publishes hundreds of articles for Rob’s Rum Guide. From his home office tv studio, he produces rum video reviews for the Rum Minute YouTube Channel. Robert organizes the annual Rum Renaissance Caribbean Cruise for rum collectors visiting numerous Distileries in the Eastern Caribbean. He first organized the International Rum Expert Panel in 2009 and the Consumer Rum Jury in 2015."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/robert-burr/More

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02/07/2020

• Meet our judges #12 DIRK BECKER
"After 13 years as a salesman and goldsmith Dirk decided to follow his true passion for food and beverages. Initially started working as a bartender, he finally completed a cook training. Meanwhile he had been dealing with rum for twenty years. From a holiday acquaintance (Appleton) and the sure knowledge that whiskies would never become his drink, his passion developed further and after many stations in gastronomy Dirk opened the Rum Club Berlin. From the Speak Easy Bar, the Rum Depot, the GERMAN RUM FESTIVAL and a book about rum were finally created. "

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/dirk-becker/

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02/07/2020

• Meet our judges #11 NIKOS ARVANITIS
"Nikos Arvanitis has been working as a bartender since 2005. Rum is his passion and his desire to understand it leads him to the Caribbean. Living in Barbados and using this island as his base, he has visited more than 40 islands of the tropical zone of the “West Indies” and over 45 distilleries and sugarcane fields, both active and inactive.. "

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/nikos-arvanitis/

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01/07/2020

• Meet our judges #10 ALINE BORTOLETTO

"PhD. Dr. Aline Bortoletto is researcher and expert in Sugarcane Spirits (Cachaça), consultant specialist and CEO at INOVBEV (Ciência e Desenvolvimento de Bebidas) and Researcher at the Laboratory of Technology and Spirits Quality (University of São Paulo, Brazil). "

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/aline-bortoletto/

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01/07/2020

• Meet our judges #08 LEONARDO PINTO

"Leonardo Pinto, “The Rum Searcher”, entered the spirits industry as a consultant in the late 90’s. In 2004 he opened his blog, Isla de Rum that in few years become a real benchmark for passionated people and professionals."

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/leonardo-pinto/

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01/07/2020

• Meet our judges #07 LISETTE DAVIS
" Lisette Davis is a independent rum specialist, chocolatier, and hotelier. The vivacious, eclectic entrepreneur, a proud Grenadian by heritage has spent the last eleven years mastering in rum – a passion that culminated in her decision to open a quaint Guesthouse on the island of Grenada featuring all things rum. Rumboat Retreat ... "

https://www.iss-awards.com/judge/lisette-davis/

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