New Riff Distilling Victorious in Blind Tasting Competition
New Riff was crowned the winner of a bottled-in-bond blind tasting event.
MeetNKY held its first John G. Carlisle Bottled-in-Bond Competition and Celebration last Thursday, and New Riff Distilling was crowned as the winner at the blind-tasting event at Smoke Justis in Covington, Kentucky.
The competition invited guests to enjoy a four-course tasting menu and blind-pour guided tasting of four bottled-in-bond whiskeys: New Riff, Old Forester 1897, Benchmark Bonded and Rittenhouse Rye.
Attendees also were given a surprise pour of Old Pogue’s Old Maysville Club Bonded Rye Whiskey. New Riff was crowned the best bottled-in-bond based on the popular vote of those in attendance, becoming the first-ever John G. Carlisle Award winner.
“It is a real honor to be selected as one of the best-bonded whiskies by those who know and love the spirit,” said New Riff Co-Founder Jay Erisman, according to the Northern Kentucky Tribune. “We were up against some stiff competition and we’re thrilled to come out on top. This event was a really great way to highlight some of those things that makes Kentucky so special—our native whiskey, and the world’s highest standards to produce it.”
The event was held March 3, the 125th anniversary of Bottled in Bond Day, which honors the day the Bottled in Bond Act, which guaranteed the integrity of the whiskey, was passed.
“Bottled-in-Bond is a recognized symbol of quality, which is representative of the same type of quality we seek for our workforce and standard of living across our region,” said meetNKY President and CEO Julie Kirkpatrick. “Being able to host this inaugural event in a setting like Smoke Justis with the iconic view of the Roebling Bridge as our backdrop was an excellent accelerant to continue our push to produce more opportunities to make people take notice of all Northern Kentucky has to offer.”
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