We were delighted to welcome our US Importers, Impex Bev, to the distillery last week. Sam and the team flew over on a whistlestop tour of the UK and spent a lovely day with us. Impex Bev do a sterling job for Penderyn in the US and we are now available in more than half the US states with 5 …
It’s the awards season for whiskies and, after picking up a Gold for our Penderyn Sherrywood at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition we have now had 3 commendations from the Ultimate Spirits Challenge Awards. Each of the 3 whiskies were branded as ‘Very Good – Strong Recommendation’ with Madeira and Legend receiving scores of 88/100 and Sherrywood getting 85/100. …
This year’s prize was won by folk legend, Shirley Collins, who collected the award at the Laugharne Weekend on Sunday 7th April from our media manager, Jon Tregenna. The prize was a bottle of Penderyn Single Cask Whisky and a cheque for £1000. This is the 5th year of the prize and it was a close run thing as the …
The results of the first whisky award ceremony of 2019 are in, and it’s a prestigious one. Our Penderyn Gold Range Sherrywood Single Malt 46% won Gold at the 2019 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Anthony Dias Blue, SFWSC’s Executive Director said, ‘Almost 3,000 spirits were judged this year—the largest number of entries in our 19-year history.’ This is a …
Penderyn was the first distillery in Wales for 100 years. The previous Welsh Whisky Company was in Frongoch, near Bala. Queen Victoria visited there in 1891 and on the 26th July 1895 the Welsh Whisky Co. received a warrant, and Royal Welsh Whisky was born. However, it was hampered by the temperance movement inside Wales and, unlike Penderyn, it remained …
Plans for Penderyn to open a second distillery and visitor centre in Swansea have been given the go ahead. Penderyn Whisky is to redevelop a disused building at the historic Hafod Morfa Copperworks site in Swansea, which is just opposite the Liberty Stadium, home of Swansea City football club. The Lottery Heritage Fund awarded £3.75m towards regenerating the 19th Century …
We were recently featured in 3 publications around the world. The Toronto Star mentioned us in an article on female distillers and Burn’s night (article here). Our Canadian Importers are the wonderful people at Boldworks, who are responsible for organising the feature Shanken News Daily of New York wrote about our expansion into the US (article here). Our US Importers …
Penderyn have made the prestigious Forbes website for the 3rd time in as many months. Felipe Schrieberg is one of their foremost Whisky journalists, and he made us one of his ‘Top 10 Whiskies of 2018’. Felipe wrote – ‘ Penderyn Rich Oak I love this Welsh distillery. I love the custard fruity character of its spirit that is evident …
We have had huge success with our multi award-winning Penderyn Legend, and have recently taken the decision to make the iconic Welsh dragon more noticeable by giving it a smart new background. Previously it was a red embossed dragon on a red matt background, but the new burgundy colour is, we hope you’ll agree, rather stunning. We’ve also changed the …
Our own Aista, who is our blender and part of our 3 women distilling team with Laura Davies and Bethan Morgans, was today featured on the Scotch Whisky website. You can read the article here. In it she talks about her move from Lithuania to Brecon, and gives a rare glimpse into our barreling and nosing process. Well worth a …
