Four Roses Named “Distiller of the Year” Icons of Whisky Award for Third Year in a Row

Four Roses Master Distiller accepts the Icons of Whisky Award from Mark Gillespie and Dave Sweet of Whisky Magazine

BourbonBlog.com congratulates Four Roses for being named “Distiller of the Year for the third year in a row! This is also the fourth time Four Roses has received this award in the last six years.

In a special awards ceremony held today at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Four Roses was honored by Whisky Magazine as the “Whisky Distiller of the Year” for the third consecutive year as part of the annual “Icons of Whisky – America” Award.

Four Roses Master Distiller Jim Rutledge accepted this award.

The “Icons of Whisky – America” Awards “designed to celebrate the people and places behind the greatest whiskies in the world.”

All winners from today’s award ceremony are pictured below. While today’s awards, the World Icons of Whisky awards will be presented in New York on April 2, 2012.

Congratulations We’ll bring you more updates on the winners here on BourbonBlog.com.

Four Roses Single Barrel, Four Roses Yellow Label and Four Roses Small Batch, photo by Dan Brown

The North American Winners for the Icons of Whisky 2012 Awards Pose for a photo at the Seelbach Hotel

Today’s Icons of Whisky Ceremony was held at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky

Special thanks Karen Kushner.