NEW MAKE SPIRIT FROM VIETNAM IS NOW THE BEST IN THE WORLD
A Vietnamese spirits company is celebrating after winning a prestigious global whisky award.
Về Để Đi Pale Ale New Make has been voted the World’s Best New Make & Young Spirit by the World Whiskies Awards, this week.
Launched in 2020, Về Để Đi, is known domestically for its Vietnamese gin, made with local botanicals, and its creme de cacao, made with award-winning local cacao nibs. However, the brand was conceived with the specific mission of launching the first full-scale whisky distillery in Southeast Asia, producing single malt and indigenous corn whiskies.
Co-founder of the Hanoi-based craft distillery Về Để Đi, Dr Michael Rosen, says: “As the honour of this World Whiskies Award surprise settled last night in London, I woke up our master distiller, it was 3am or 4am in Vietnam. “Edward, our Pale Ale was just announced as Best in the World in the New Make & Young Spirit category!” “Dude,” he said, he’s American, “I told you it’s exceptional.” And he hung up.
So when the sun rises in Asia, we’ll share the news with our team, a tremendous encouragement for subtropical distilleries, for all of us dedicated to hand-batched craft distillation and ageing. This award is an encouraging step as we look forward to sharing Vietnam’s fist single malt whiskies with the world.”
The World Whiskies Awards (WWA), part of the prestigious World Drinks Awards program, are organised by The Drinks Report, a division of Paragraph Publishing, an industry leader in beverage media. The awards recognise the very best in all internationally recognised styles of whisky.
Each year, whiskies from around the globe are rigorously blind judged by an independent panel of the world’s top whisky experts to determine the best in each category and, ultimately, the best in the world.
Về Để Đi is Vietnam’s first whisky distillery. Master distiller Edward Tiege (previously of Copalli Rum in Belize), heads up the distillery on the outskirts of Vietnam’s capital. It is equipped with a 3,000-litre copper pot wash still, 2,000-litre copper pot spirit still, 4,000-litre mash tun, and six 3,000-litre fermentation tanks.
Về Để Đi is redefining Vietnamese spirits from Southeast Asia’s first full-scale independent craft distillery producing whisky, rum, gin and tropical liqueurs.
Về Để Đi’s Brown Ale New Make and Pale Ale New Make were awarded Gold and Master at the 2024 Spirits Business Global World Whisky Masters.
https://www.ve-de-di.com
About Về Để Đi Pale Ale New Make
Production
Malt types:
Pale Ale Malt
Crystal Malt
Caramel Malt
• Ale and Whisky Yeasts
• Temperature-controlled fermentation to produce 8.5% ABV beer
• Twice distilled in pot stills to produce new-make whisky at 70% ABV
Tasting Notes
• Nose: Floral, bread, caramel and fruit with a touch of citrus.
• Taste: Fruity, malty, caramel, stone fruit with honey finish.
About the World Whiskies Awards
As part of the World Drinks Awards, the World Whiskies Awards recognises whiskies from all over the world. The awards aim to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in whisky-making, from all styles across the global industry. Launched in 2007, the World Drinks Awards are the global awards selecting the very best in all internationally recognised styles of drinks, through blind tasting with our expert panel of judges. With over 36 categories including Whisky, Gin, Vodka, Tequila, Sparkling Wine, Beer, No & Lo, and tasting held globally across the UK, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Japan, Canada and USA, we are always looking for the next best product to crown ‘World’s Best’ within each category. There are two separate strands to these awards – one is for taste and the other is for design excellence. Entrants into the competition, will be invited to attend our Awards ceremonies to celebrate in person both category winners and the ‘World’s Best’.
