RICH & RARE RESERVE NAMED TROPHY FINALIST AT ULTIMATE SPIRITS CHALLENGE

Three other Sazerac Canadian whiskies honored 

NEW ORLEANS, lA.  (May 31, 2016) – Judges awarded four Canadian whiskies from the Sazerac Company with high honors at the 2016 Ultimate Spirits Challenge, and selected Rich & Rare Reserve as a Chairman’s Trophy Finalist.

Rich & Rare Reserve was distinguished as “Extraordinary, Ultimate Recommendation,”

Caribou Crossing Single Barrel and Legacy Canadian Whisky were each honored as “Excellent, Highly Recommended,” and Royal Canadian Small Batch was awarded the distinction of “Very Good, Strong Recommendation.”

Rich & Rare Reserve and Legacy Canadian were deemed to be “Great Values.” Caribou Crossing was designated as “Tried & True.”

This competition, in its seventh year, is judged by a panel of the spirit industry’s most renowned judges including award-winning authors, buyers, journalists, educators and bar owners, who rate each spirit on a 100-point scale.

Complete results for the 2016 Ultimate Spirits Challenge can be found at www.ultimate-beverage.com/usc2016results.

About the Sazerac Company

Sazerac is one of New Orleans’ oldest American family owned, privately held companies and has operations in New Orleans, Louisiana; Frankfort, Bardstown, Louisville and Owensboro, Kentucky; Fredericksburg, Virginia; Carson, California; Baltimore, Maryland; Lewiston, Maine; Manchester, New Hampshire; and Montreal Canada. For more information on Sazerac, please visit http://www.sazerac.com/.