2026 Ireland Quality Food & Drink Awards
Drinks category winners
We are thrilled to reveal the winners in this year's Drinks categories! The standard of entries this year was extraordinary, and it is a significant achievement to have won.
Beer styles produced using ale fermentation. Includes pale ales, amber ales, IPA, session ales and speciality or craft ales. Products may be bottled, canned or kegged and intended for retail sale.
Our Brewery - Do You Wanna Funk - NEIPA
Our Brewery - Hang Up Your Hang Ups - Hazy India Pale Ale
Our Brewery - Modern Love Pale Ale
Sparkling wines including Champagne, Prosecco, Cava and other sparkling styles. Includes traditional and tank-method wines intended for celebration or everyday consumption.
Aldi Champagne Brut
Aldi Cremant de Loire
Aldi IT Metallic Secco
Lidl Comte de Senneval Champagne
Aldi Organic Prosecco DOC
Distilled spirits flavoured predominantly with juniper. Includes London Dry, flavoured, contemporary and craft gins.
Lidl Wild Burrow Gin
Alcoholic drinks containing low or zero alcohol. Includes beers, wines, spirits and ready-to-drink products formulated to reduce or remove alcohol.
Fierce Mild Alcohol-Free Extra Pale Ale
Fierce Mild Alcohol-Free Lager
Rosé wines ranging from pale to deep pink styles. Includes dry, off dry and sparkling rosé wines.
Aldi Specially Selected Pinot Grigio Blush
Still white wines produced from white or red grape varieties. Includes all styles and regions intended for retail sale
Lidl Albariño D.O Rías Baixas
Lidl Deluxe New Zealand Premium Pinot Gris Gisborne
Aldi Specially Selected Picpoul de Pinet
Aldi Specially Selected Pinot Gris
Distilled grape-based spirits including brandy and Cognac. Products may be aged or unaged and intended for sipping or mixing.
Aldi Specially Selected VS Cognac
Lidl The Crafty Brewing Company Belgian Style Saison 4.8%
Lidl Crafty Irish Craft Pale Ale 4.5%
Lidl The Crafty Brewing Company Irish Craft Stout 4.5%
Bottom-fermented beers including pale lager, pilsner, helles and speciality lagers. Products may be mainstream or craft and sold in bottles or cans
Our Brewery - Pressure to Pick - Italian Pilsner
Aldi Brown Bear Gluten Free Lager
Still red wines produced from red grape varieties. Includes all styles and regions intended for retail sale.
S/S Chilean Reserva Cabernet Sauvignon
St Emilion Grand Cru
Lidl Hachón Ribera del Duero Spain 14%
Aldi Original Series Stellenbosch Premium Red
S/S Valpolicella
Aldi Animus Douro Reserva
Lidl Chianti Riserva Italy 13%
Distilled spirits made from fermented grain mash and aged in wood. Includes Irish, Scotch, American and world whiskeys.
Aldi Ardfallen Whiskey
