This year, Royal Mash Vintage Vodka has won 14 honours, including gold medals at the Great International Spirits Competition, People’s Choice Award, and Concours International de Lyon.

The news comes just as the brand is listed by Fortnum and Mason in London and as it announces its continuing relationship with Harrods and its first entry into the USA.

Co-founder and director Rachel de Caen said: “We are truly thrilled to have received so many top accolades from Europe and from the USA in such a short space of time. 

“We created the brand a few years’ ago and only recently launched on the UK mainland. We are about to spread our reach into the USA.

“Ours is an exceptionally smooth and subtle vodka made from arguably the world’s finest potatoes – Jersey Royals – and it is gratifying that so many professional tasters agree with us that this is a rather exceptional spirit.”