The Trade

Awards & recognition

What the tables said.

A quiet ledger of published results — not a trophy room.

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Selected results

World Gin Awards, IWSC, The Spirits Business, Danish press, and the house.

  1. 2009 Geranium Gin — Gold Medal and Best in Test World Spirits Awards · same year as launch
  2. 2010 Geranium Gin — IWSC Gold International Wine & Spirit Competition · Gold
  3. 2013–14 Old English Gin — Gold at four competitions IWSC, Ultimate Spirits Challenge, San Francisco World Spirits, Los Angeles Wine & Spirits · Gold at each
  4. 2015 Old English Gin — World’s Best Gin World Gin Awards · Classic Gin
  5. 2016 Geranium Gin — the gin in “The Best Scene” IBA World Cocktail Championship, Japan · winning cocktail by Kenji Tsubokura
  6. 2017 Frederiksberg London Dry Gin — Gold IWSC · first gold for a Danish gin
  7. 2020 Green Meadow Organic Vodka — Gold The Vodka Masters · The Spirits Business
  8. 2020 Green Meadow Organic Vodka — 92 points IWSC · “sleek, elegant, understated”
  9. 2023 Reinheart Rye Whiskey 2015 — Gold The Spirits Business
  10. 2009–2026 Geranium Gin — 17 international tastings Seventeen international tastings from 2009 to 2026, plus cocktail competitions in Europe, Asia, and the USA

Also a method

Henrik’s first public credential was not a medal on his own bottle. It was a seat at IWSC. The awards above are downstream of that habit: taste first, then name what you have made.

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