ARARAT brandy wins gold at Berlin International Spirits Competition

PanARMENIAN.Net - A 6-year-old brandy, ARARAT Ani received a gold medal at the Berlin International Spirits Competition, while Yerevan Brandy Factory won a special international award - “Distillery of the Year” - by the unanimous decision of judges.

This year the competition was held from March 5 to 6 and featured nearly 400 spirits from more than 20 countries worldwide.

The Berlin International Spirits Competition is unique in its kind with judges chosen from among leading professionals of the spirits industry: restaurant and top retail store owners, distributors and importers, who have the ability to make a direct impact on brand sales.

According to the organizers, ARARAT is the first Armenian brand to ever represent Armenia in the competition throughout the entire history of the competition.

"With this medal, ARARAT continues the series of triumphs at prestigious international competitions it has secured recently. Among the latest awards of ARARAT is the Gold Medal of San Francisco (SFIWSC) competition and the World Spirits Awards," Yerevan Brandy Factory said on Wednesday, May 10.

ARARAT Ani is named after the medieval capital of Armenia. The symbol of the Bagratuni royal dynasty is a leopard, depicted on Ani’s main gate and today can be seen on the packaging of this ARARAT brandy.

Armenian brandy ARARAT is produced by Yerevan Brandy Company using traditional technology, whose foundations were laid in 1887 by the brothers Nerses and Vasily Tairyants. ARARAT brandy is created using only local endemic high-quality Armenian grapes and crystal clear spring water. The brandy is aged exclusively in barrels made of Caucasian oak, produced in their in-house cooperage plant. In 1998, Yerevan Brandy Company became a part of Pernod Ricard, an international company and the world’s leader in the Premium spirits industry.