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Cedar Ridge Distillery Named 2017 “Distillery of the Year”

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CEDAR RIDGE DISTILLERY (SWISHER, IOWA)
NAMED “DISTILLERY OF THE YEAR” BY THE AMERICAN DISTILLING INSTITUTE

April 5th, 2017 / Baltimore, MD / Last night at the 14th annual American Distilling Institute (ADI) Conference and Expo, Cedar Ridge Distillery was named the 2017 “Distillery of the Year.”

Bill Owens, President of the ADI, presented the award. “ADI works to bring craft spirits to the public, as well as to strengthen the community of distillers and their providers,” he commented. “Cedar Ridge was chosen from among a field of more than 1,300 craft distilleries across the country for the quality of their whiskeys, their commitment to grain-to-glass production, their ongoing legislative advocacy and leadership, and their ongoing product innovation.”

Jeff Quint, founder and owner of Cedar Ridge, said: “This is huge for us. We’ve been at this for a while. When we opened in 2005, we were one of just a dozen or so new distillers in this country; the word ‘craft’ didn’t even come along to our industry until years later. Today, we sell 20,000 cases a year and are available to about 90% of the U.S. population. We use our own corn. We grow it; we mash it; we ferment it; we distill it; we barrel-age it; and we bottle it. We have about two-and-a-half years’ stock in our rick houses. In our home state, within super-premium bourbon, we’re #2 to only Maker’s Mark. Bill, I suspect this honor might help us reach #1!”

About Cedar Ridge Distillery
The Quint family started their first winery, which is still operating, on the Mosel River in Germany in the 1700s. In 1881, John Quint emigrated to eastern Iowa, where the family continued to farm and distill. In 2005, Jeff thought, “Why not distill some of our grain commercially?,” and Cedar Ridge Distillery was founded. Cedar Ridge’s three German-made CARL copper stills are small (holding only 40, 100, and 200 gallons each), and the distillery creates just 4 barrels of whiskey each day. Expressions include Cedar Ridge Reserve Iowa Bourbon Whiskey; Cedar Ridge Malted Rye; Cedar Ridge Solera Single Malt; and Cedar Ridge Wheat Whiskey. All carry SRPs around $45.00/750mL and are available in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas, Kansas, and Wisconsin.

About the Craft Spirits Industry
Per the American Craft Spirits Data Project, as of August 2016 there were 1,315 craft distillers active in the United States. The U.S. craft spirits market reached 4.9 million cases and $2.4 billion in retail sales in 2015, growing at a CAGR of 27.4% in volume and 27.9% in value between 2010 and 2015. The market share of U.S. craft spirits reached 2.2% in volume and 3% in value in 2015, up from 0.8% and 1.1% in 2010, respectively.

Investments by the U.S. craft industry reached close to $300 million in 2015, which primarily covered the build-out of tasting rooms and other visitor experiences, purchase of equipment to increase production capacity, and associated labor costs.

Interviews, hi-res imagery, and samples available upon request
Media Contact: Christine Deussen, cdeussen@deussenglobal.com
tel.212-682-2293, x111
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