In 2025, “Ki One” was crowned one of the world’s best whiskies — and now it’s making waves again. One of its lineup, “Unicorn,” took home IWSC 2025 Best Worldwide Whisky, and “Signature” grabbed ‘Best of Class’ at SFWSC 2025. That’s two out of the world’s top three spirits competitions recognizing Ki One (kionedistillery) as world-class. FYI, Ki One is the fastest whisky distillery ever to score a double crown. 🥃🔥 And it doesn’t stop there. At WWA 2026 — one of the most prestigious whisky awards — Ki One won “Best Korean Single Malt.” On top of that, at ICONS OF WHISKY 2026, it was named Craft Producer of the Year. Basically? They’re collecting trophies at this point. Korea used to be known for soju, and honestly, we were pretty new to the whisky game. Professional distilleries only started popping up recently. But Ki One is flipping that narrative. Fun fact: “Ki One (기원)” means both Origin and Wish. So here’s to Ki One — becoming the origin of Korean whisky and the wish we’ve ...