MEDALS
Apple Pie-tini 0%
Award: Alternative Drinks Silver
Score: 91
Judges Tasting Notes: Aromas of a freshly baked apple tarte tatin, bringing spiced sweet apple and toffee notes. Swirled with cream studded in vanilla seeds. Lovely warmth and a lingering finish.
Mojito 0%
Award: Alternative Drinks Silver
Score: 91
Judges Tasting Notes: Good, strong flavours of citrus sharpness, minty tingle and sugar sweetness combine well. Balanced and harmonious. A good example of what a virgin mojito can be.
Passion Fruit Martini 0%
Award: Alternative Drinks Silver
Score: 90
Judges Tasting Notes: Freshly sliced pineapple and sticky orange aromas. On the palate a tropical fruit salad of dragon fruit, papaya and kiwi sprinkled with stem ginger.
Tropica Exotica 0%
Award: Alternative Drinks Silver
Score: 90
Judges Tasting Notes: Ripe tropical fruit freshness rises and carries to allow vanilla with almond to show mid-palate. Very pleasing finish with peppery heat tingle. Tall glass, ice nothing else needed.
Banoffee Daiquiri 0%
Award: Alternative Drinks Bronze
Judges Tasting Notes: Tropical and full-bodied with notes of banana banoffee pie, fresh coconut and juicy pineapple.
LONDON SPIRITS COMPETITION 2022
Bottleproof Cocktails Wins More Medals at IWSC 2020
Old Fashioned
Award: Spirit Gold 2020
Score: 95
Judges Tasting Notes: Beautifully executed classic example, bourbon and orange on the nose with lots of maraschino cherry and brown sugar sweetness. Subtle hints of cinnamon and clove spice accentuate the vanilla from the bourbon barrels.
Porn Star Martini
Award: Spirit Silver 2020
Score: 90
Judges Tasting Notes: Powerful and expressive nose of tinned peaches, vanilla and white chocolate – think a liquid Solera ice cream. Rich but surprisingly refreshing.
Soft Passion
Award: Spirit Silver 2020
Score: 90
Judges Tasting Notes: Nice and sweet with copious amounts of tropical fruit flavours; tangy and super flavoursome palate. All natural and delicious.
Apple-Pie Tini
Award: Spirit Silver 2020
Score: 90
Judges Tasting Notes: Heaps of passionfruit and vanilla in a great velvety delivery. Grippingly juicy and tangy on the palate. Flavours are well balanced and not cloyingly sweet.
Raspberry Daiquiri
Award: Spirit Bronze 2020
Score: 88
Judges Tasting Notes: Natural red forest fruits on the nose with a tangy palate and a warming heat carrying the long finish.
Blueberry Gin Burst
Award: Spirit Bronze 2020
Score: 87
Judges Tasting Notes: The flavours of lemon and bitter orange feel fresh, lively and really well balanced.
Congratulations to our R&D and production team for coming up with such winning recipes!
Bottleproof Cocktails scoops top award at The Spirits Masters 2019
With the start of a new year, we are delighted to announce that Bottleproof Cocktails finished 2019 on a high when we were announced as overall winners of the Global Speciality Spirits Masters 2019.
Run by “The Spirits Business”, products are split into different categories (Gin, Whisky, Rum, Vodka etc) with competitions happening throughout the year. Our category, “The Speciality Spirits” encompassed some of the Worlds’ more niche spirits alongside pre- mixed and ready to drink products.
It is the first time Bottleproof has entered the competition and we sent six of our cocktails to be independently blind tasted by industry experts. Impressively, all six received an award with the results as follows:
GOLD MEDALS: Bottleproof Espresso Martini, Bottleproof Negroni, Bottleproof Old Fashioned, Bottleproof Scaffa – Orchard Edition
SILVER MEDALS: Bottleproof Porn Star Martini, Bottleproof Blueberry Gin Burst
At the awards lunch, Bottleproof Cocktails were then announced as the overall winners of the Speciality Spirits category collecting the title of Grand Speciality Master 2019.
Following our success in The IWSC 2019 awards, The Spirits Masters result serves to back up our belief that our cocktails are genuinely as good as can be served by a professional mixologist and is testament to the hours of hard work our mixologists have spent perfecting the recipes.
Bottleproof Espresso Martini & Negroni win coveted medals at IWSC 2019
We Entered 2 x cocktails into this years International Wine & Spirits Competition just to see how they would fare and we were delighted to see both were awarded medals.
Next time, we will enter more of our range!
The IWSC comprises a high-profile panel of very experienced judges who praised our winning cocktails with the following tasting notes:
Espresso Martini
Award: Silver
Score: 90
Judges Tasting Notes: Aromatic and sweet coffee notes balance the sour and crisp fruity aromas and flavours. It has a natural coffee lead throughout, with great intensity and a fantastic focus. The sweetness, spices and bitter coffee notes are all in order. Highly recommended
Negroni
Award: Bronze
Score: 87
Judges Tasting Notes: The nose has beautiful alpine herbs and a scent of vermouth. This is s fruitier, fresher Negroni – inspired style with an appetising and balanced selection of flavours.
Congratulations to our R&D and production team for coming up with such winning recipes!