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The Gin Cooperative Awards combine blind tasting for Scottish Gin neat, as a gin and tonic, and packaging, providing producers with a score and feedback that is truly representative of their product in its entirety.
Our judging panel includes individuals from the spirits industry, the gin community and consumers, carefully selected so our awards programme is a real-world reflection of all types of gin drinkers.
Learn more about our judges here.
The taste categories for The Gin Cooperative Awards cover the key gin styles and production methods, specifically London Dry, Distilled, Bathtub, Cask Aged, Old Tom, Navy Strength and Flavoured. All entries go through a considered judging process, looking at the qualities of the spirit neat, how it works with tonic and how the gin is presented in the bottle. Learn more about our awards, including our rigorous judging process and scoring criteria by downloading our media pack here.
All gins entered into their respective taste category are automatically entered into the additional categories of: Scottish Gin of the Year, Scottish Gin and Tonic of the Year, New Scottish Gin of the Year (released in the last 12 months), Scottish Gin Packaging of the Year, Industry Judges Award, Community Judges Award and Consumer Judges Award. The top scores for each category will be collated to award our Gold, Silver and Bronze winners across each of the 14 awards.
A “drink and judge responsibly” message is communicated to all judges throughout the judging process.
