Midleton Distillery has been named The Tasting Alliance’s Most Awarded Distillery of the 2025 Competition Season, a distinction that reflects extraordinary performance across its Irish whiskey portfolio. From County Cork, Ireland, Midleton produces whiskeys renowned for quality, crafted with expertise and underpinned by 200 years of heritage. This season’s results confirm what whiskey lovers and trade professionals have long known: Midleton is not defined by a single standout bottle, but by sustained excellence across styles, age statements, and categories.

Midleton’s win is rooted in the breadth and consistency of the distillery’s house of brands. Midleton Distillery is home to some of the most iconic and globally recognized Irish whiskeys — each carrying its own legacy while benefiting from shared craft and technical mastery. 

Brands produced at Midleton Distillery include:

• Jameson 

• Redbreast 

• Midleton Very Rare 

• Spot Whiskeys (Green Spot, Yellow Spot, Red Spot, Blue Spot) 

• Powers 

• Method and Madness 

Together, this portfolio gives Midleton an uncommon advantage in competition: the ability to show world-class quality in multiple categories and flavor traditions, not just one narrow lane.

Being named Most Awarded International Distillery at the 2025 San Francisco World Spirits Competition required more than prestige releases or a single hero brand. In blind judging, the distillery’s whiskies earned more than 40 medals overall, including a category-leading haul of Double Golds — a signal of unanimous approval from the judging panels. And these are only the stats of a single competition.

Key performance highlights included:

• Category dominance in Double Gold medals, reflecting consistency across the distillery’s core and premium lines.

• Multiple Best in Class finalist placements, showing strength not only in medal tiers but at the very top of category competition. 

• Standout whiskies that rose to the highest levels of recognition during the season.

Because all judging is blind, this level of success points to something deeper than brand reputation. It’s proof of a distillery culture where technical precision, cask strategy, blending skill, and house style all scale without losing character.

The Tasting Alliance competitions are judged blind, and Double Gold medals require unanimous Gold scores from every judge, making them among the hardest honors to earn in the spirits world. Midleton’s Most Awarded Distillery title is therefore more than a seasonal headline. It highlights a distillery that can deliver world-class character at scale, lift an entire national category, and set the bar for what modern Irish whiskey looks like on the global stage.