London, June 2026: Ayurvod, the Indian-origin herbal liqueur brand built on Ayurvedic botanicals and Polish distillation craft, has won Gold at the World Liqueur Awards 2026 in London its second international gold medal of the year. The 40% ABV liqueur, infused with more than 75 traditional Ayurvedic botanicals including cardamom, turmeric, cinnamon and gooseberry, is produced at Tessellis Distillery in Poland and built on a base of Polish wheat vodka and natural forest fruits.
The London win follows an earlier Gold for Ayurvod at the Warsaw Spirits Competition, giving the brand two international medals within its first eight months of launch — an unusually fast run for a new entrant in the global spirits circuit. The liqueur is sweetened
with jaggery instead of refined sugar, a deliberate choice tied to its Ayurvedic positioning.
Ayurvod was conceived by Indian entrepreneur Midhun Mohan, who traces his roots to the port city of Muziris on Kerala’s coast. The recipe took years to refine, with Polish master distiller Mariusz Pluciński overseeing the integration of Ayurvedic ingredients into the vodka base.
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Midhun Mohan, Founder of Ayurvod, said: “I see this gold medal as an honour and recognition for the ancient heritage and wisdom of our land. I see it as an achievement of our homeland rather than a personal gain.” On the technical execution, he added: “I am deeply thanking Polish craftsmanship for the technical excellence to bring these elements to life.”
This is not Mohan’s first attempt at carrying Indian spirits onto the global stage. He had previously launched the arrack brand Charayam internationally, timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of arrack’s ban in India signalling a consistent pattern of using heritage Indian spirit categories as a platform for international launches.
While botanical liqueurs are a crowded global category, very few brands have built their entire identity around Ayurveda specifically. Ayurvod’s back-to-back wins at Warsaw and London suggest there may be a genuine gap in the international liqueur market for an Ayurveda-rooted positioning one that Indian spirits entrepreneurs have largely left unexplored until now.
With two gold medals in under a year, Ayurvod’s next test will be translating award recognition into actual retail presence and consumer pull across key international markets and potentially India itself, where Ayurveda as a wellness concept already enjoys strong consumer trust.
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