Young and old… but always GOLD!

While only started in 2019, the Tokyo Whisky & Spirits Competition is already considered one of the most influential spirits contests all over the world. The reason for its importance is simple: it involves a large number of industry experts in its panel of judges (259 tasters for this edition!), and it is organized in a very structured and professional way. First a session of remote tastings at the beginning of the year, then a second session in Tokyo at the end of spring: all the spirits are tasted blindly, each of them is evaluated by at least eight jurors, and the result is complete fairness and impartiality of the results. Only taste matters in the end!
The ambitious goal of the competition is to rigorously judge all kinds of fine spirits: traditional Japanese ones, but also the best spirits from the rest of the world. This year the total amount of submissions was 832, a really impressive amount! Ron Millonario entered the competition with our two extremes: the fresh, light and young 10 Aniversario Reserva, and the rich, sweet, luxurious and very mature Millonario XO.

Two very different bottlings that encompass the opposites in our range: a rum made for easy drinking and cocktails, and our behemoth meant for slow meditative tasting, maybe paired with a cigar. But in our opinion, both are of the highest quality, regardless of age and price point. And we are happy to see that the Japanese jury agrees with us, because they both received the same award!
Gold:
Ron Millonario 10 Aniversario Reserva
Ron Millonario XO

You can find the complete panel of Judges here:
tokyowhiskyspiritscompetition.jp/judges

Our most sincere thanks to the organization of the competition, and we promise to participate next year too!