Awards
Lustau has earned prestige and a reputation for quality which has been built up over the years through the dedication we have put into producing high quality wine and the widest range of premium sherry wines.
This business philosophy, combined with our passion for, and understanding of sherry making , has been rewarded by the numerous medals and prizes from the most renowned international competitions and forums, resulting in our wines gaining recognition the world over.
It would be impossible to mention all the medals and awards our wines have won but it should be emphasized that in recent years the number of prizes has risen constantly.
In Spain Lustau was acknowledged as the Best Food and Wine Company in the export field by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The long international history of our bodega, our presence in the best restaurants and wine cellars around the world, together with the impeccable quality of our wines, were the merits considered for this award.
Our wines have triumphed in various competitions in Spain such as Enoforum, Premios Bacchus, the International Wine Contest of Andalusia and many more.
As far as international wine competitions are concerned our Sherries have received acknowledgement in the five continents. This prestige allows us to rub shoulders with wines of such renowned regions as Champagne, Oporto, Burgundy and Bordeaux.
Amongst all the awards we would like to highlight those won at the International Wine Challenge in London, unofficially known as the “Oscars” of the wine world.
Our wines have won more than 30 medals in one single edition which illustrates Lustau’s prestige image in the United Kingdom, the biggest wine-importing country in the world.
Moreover, in the 2005 edition Lustau added the following trophies to the 30 medals mentioned: Best Sherry and Best Fortified Wine for our Oloroso Empeatriz Eugenia and Best Sherry for the quality-price ratio for our Fino del Puerto.
Additionally our bodega was awarded World’s Best Producer of Fortified Wines in a ferocious competition with the wines from Madeira and Oporto. Lustau was distinguished with the Len Evans Trophy, in recognition of being the bodega with the best performance in the last five editions of the contest.
In the 2007 edition Lustau Puerto Fino and Oloroso Don Nuño were awarded Best Fortified Wine and Best Oloroso, respectively.
Outside the British Isles but still on the European continent, we should also mention our achievement at the International Wine Contest in Brussels, where our Puerto Fino and East India won Gold Medals in 2007 and 2008 and our Moscatel Emilín the Grand Gold Medal in 1996.
Lustau has a considerable presence throughout the entire United States and received the Critics’ Choice Award from the Wine Spectator magazine in 1993, 1997, 1999 and 2001.
In Asia, more specifically at the China Wine & Spirits Competition in Shanghai, the Olorosos VORS and Emperatriz Eugenia received Gold Medals in the 2003 and 2004 editions respectively, and the East India received one of the five Grand Gold Medals in 2006.
In view of this list of accolades, which is far from exhaustive, we can affirm that Lustau wines are “high fliers” and we say this not only in a figurative sense since our Medium Dry Amontillado La Plaza Vieja, which is served on American Airlines flights, was awarded Best Fortified Wine served in Business Class at the 2007 edition of Cellars in the Sky, a competition organized by Wine & Spirit Magazine.
The work of all these years, focused on the production of wines, brandies and sherry wine vinegars of the highest quality, have yielded results, and today Lustau is a flagship Sherry brand on a global level. Our aim is that these genuine and special wines continue to associate closely with those of the best wine-producing regions of the world and become more and more known to the general public, as they already are to wine connoisseurs.
