Fair enough, the last time it tried it was a couple of years before any of those awards, and then we thought it was properly dreadful, I still reckon there must have been a bunch of taffs on that tasting committee though!
I can believe it with a a Japanese whisky, but no way at any tasting, anywhere on the world but in Wales would Penderyn win a tasting, unless it was against maybe Bells or Grouse, and even then I'd probably prefer the Grouse.
You probably should write to them and tell them, as they are clearly wrong. Then again, they're probably saying it in the hope you then think their product is superior. Whilst at the Glenturret distillery tour we were on it was mentioned that Auchentoshan Scotch is triple distilled, this was...
American whiskey is generally distilled twice, first in a column still and then secondly in a doubler still. Almost all bourbon distillers use this method, as do most other American whiskey makers. The thing is that American whiskey is quite fundamentally different to Scotch and Irish whisky...