\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Northern Kentucky distillery earned major honors on the world stage this year.Wenzel Distillery in Covington earned five medals at the 2026 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, including back-to-back double-golds.The double-gold is handed out when all judges agree that a particular bottle deserves a gold medal rating.The company\u2019s double oaked bourbon and sherry cask finished Bourbon each received a double-gold medal, with a nearly perfect score of 99. Wenzel\u2019s toasted oak bourbon also earned double gold, with a score of 97. \u201cFollowing 2025\u2019s Best in Class American Rye Whiskey, we can\u2019t explain just how excited we are to share this news,\u201d Wenzel Distillery said in a post to social media.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tCOVINGTON, Ky. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A Northern Kentucky distillery earned major honors on the world stage this year.<\/p>\n
Wenzel Distillery in Covington earned five medals at the 2026 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, including back-to-back double-golds.<\/p>\n
The double-gold is handed out when all judges agree that a particular bottle deserves a gold medal rating.<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s double oaked bourbon and sherry cask finished Bourbon each received a double-gold medal, with a nearly perfect score of 99. <\/p>\n
Wenzel\u2019s toasted oak bourbon also earned double gold, with a score of 97. <\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing 2025\u2019s Best in Class American Rye Whiskey, we can\u2019t explain just how excited we are to share this news,\u201d Wenzel Distillery said in a post to social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Northern Kentucky distillery earned major honors on the world stage this year.Wenzel Distillery in Covington earned five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[144338,45836,1804,144331,144333,144335,144330,66728,144336,144337,144332,101,103,102,104,106,105,144334,144329,63050,72],"class_list":["post-353761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-back-to-back-double-gold","tag-bourbon","tag-company","tag-covington-brewery","tag-double-oaked-bourbon","tag-gold-medal-rating","tag-major-honor","tag-medal","tag-northern-kentucky-distillery","tag-particular-bottle","tag-perfect-score","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sherry-cask","tag-wenzel-distillery","tag-world-stage","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}