Winner Brands
Meet the Winners of 2023 Bartender Spirits Awards
Winning Years
Our Products
2023
Defiant Rye Whisky
Whisky
90 Points
Defiant Patriot American Single Malt Whisky
Whisky
89 Points
Blue Ridge Distilling Co.
United States
The Defiant spirit runs through our souls. That craving for adventure and breaking away from convention. Finding truth in authenticity. Some chase a few defiant moments. Others live a lifetime in the spirit.
Our crew behind the stills are salvage divers by trade, working at the edge of catastrophe at the bottom of the ocean. We run towards certain disaster and change fate with metal, fire, water and intellect. Our whisky is created by those same virtues. In diving and in whisky, greatness is not coincidence. It is cultivated, pushed, practiced and always evolving. We’re rethinking whisky by taking the best of Scottish tradition and combining it with American ingenuity. We’re starting a whisky revolution. Charting a new course on the journey. And we’re doing it the Defiant way.