Only a handful of Double Golds are handed out at the yearly San Francisco Spirits and Ready to Drink competition. In the ready to drink cocktail, mocktail and mixers category, Top Note took another Double Gold one for our most classic of flavors, our Classic Tonic Water. Here is our Press Release!
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Milwaukee, Wis., June 12, 2026 — Top Note Tonic, the inventive makers behind the most award-winning lineup of American-made mixers, has made unprecedented waves in national beverage competitions this Spring for its exceptionally delicious lineup of non-alcoholic tonics and sparkling sodas. Its Classic Tonic Water has earned four, back-to-back Double Golds in the industry's most rigorous competition last month.
The San Francisco Ready-to-Drink Competition awarded Top Note’s Classic Tonic Water with a Double Gold Medal for the foueth year in a row. With a judging panel featuring the industry’s most active and knowledgeable experts and more than 5,000 annual entries, The Tasting Alliance’s blind tasting competitions are considered the most influential awards of the season and the highest authority in the beverage category today.
“It’s such an honor that we continue to be recognized as the leading crafter of non-alcoholic mixers and sodas, especially by the caliber of industry professionals who are a part of the selection process for this competition,” says Top Note Tonic Co-founder Mary Pellettieri.
Pellettieri, who wrote the book on quality for the Brewers Association and has been a respected beverage expert for decades, takes a hands-on approach to recipe development and quality management at Top Note. Every delicious beverage begins with a small-scale pilot sized batch in a research kitchen, where Top Note’s co-founders taste the developing recipes up to 100 times before they are approved.
“Through a lot of trial and error in our own research kitchen, we have made beverages that pair well with alcohol but also are delicious enough to stand alone. We work hard to craft incredible beverages that happen to also mix well with multiple products” says Pellettieri. “It is not an easy feat, but worth the results. We like to think Top Note’s beverages are an insider’s secret to making exceptional cocktails.”
With this win, Top Note’s Classic Tonic Water can be named the most double golded tonic water in the market. Featuring all natural bitters of quinine, notes of lime zest, and real cane sugar, the Classic Tonic Water has fewer calories than commercial tonics and these judges seem to agree, it is a most delicious option for any tonic drink.
Top Note Tonic is available to ship online nationwide and can be found on shelves in the Midwest. Order Top Note’s gold medal winning mixers online at topnotetonic.com.
About Top Note Tonic
Top Note Tonic has invented the most complex and layered beverage mixers on the market. Co-founded by Mary Pellettieri, who has more than 20 years of experience working in craft beer quality, Top Note’s lineup of award-winning mixers not surprisingly feature unique botanicals, unexpected ingredients, and beautiful flavors that complement the best spirits in the market. Top Note allows consumers to create with confidence and discover complex, but not complicated, cocktails and alcohol-free mixed drinks.
The entire Top Note product lineup, including, Club Soda No 1, Ginger Beer, Classic Tonic Water, Grapefruit soda, Bitter Lemon Tonic and the award-winning Indian Tonic Water, are available online at topnotetonic.com.