Will Bruichladdich Become the New Dalmore ?
Geplaatst: 28 Nov 2012, 15:59
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Yesterday I came across a news article in French about Rémy Cointreau’s plans for the newly acquired Bruichladdich distillery. The headline reads “Launch of the world’s most expensive malt” which of course ignited my interest to read on.
In the article, Rémy Cointreau CEO Jean-Marie Laborde is quoted:
Dans ce registre, Rémy Cointreau a acquis la distillerie de Bruichladdich fondée en 1881 sur l’île d’Islay, au large de l’Ecosse, avec la volonté d’y produire «le malt le plus cher du monde», a expliqué Jean-Marie Laborde, directeur général, exprimant une «ambition sans limite sur cette affaire», évaluée à 72,8 millions d’euros.
This essentially translates into “We have a limitless ambition to produce the world’s most expensive malt at Bruichladdich.”
If this article isn’t a case of sloppy journalism putting statements in between double quotes that a person never has said or meant this way (and we know such things do happen in journalism), this is explosive news indeed.
It seems Mr. Laborde is destined to Dalmorize Bruichladdich, moving away from the Progressive Hebridean Distillers niche to the glitzy world of ‘luxury’ bottlings and crystal decanters we have come to be flooded with recently. Keeping in mind that from 1996 to 2003 Jean-Marie Laborde was CEO of Moët & Chandon belonging to LVMH, this move is hardly a surprise.
Evidently, such a change of direction is not in the spirit in which the previous owners, and Mark Reynier in particular, had run the distillery. And I am almost 100% sure that Jean-Marie Laborde did not mention such plans during the takeover talks. Rather the owners (naively?) believed that apart from the intriguing prospect of doubling the production nothing would change for the time being. L’argent fait tout.
Another question of course is how exactly Bruichaddich wants to fulfill this threatpromise. World’s most expensive whisky better be old. Do they still have high quality old stock to create bottlings on eye level with the most expensive 50+ year old Macallans, Glenfiddichs and Dalmores? I don’t think Mr. Laborde wants to wait 40 more years until the new stock has come to that age. He is already over 60 and I am sure that he wants to taste the fruits of his limitless ambition while still alive.
Yesterday I came across a news article in French about Rémy Cointreau’s plans for the newly acquired Bruichladdich distillery. The headline reads “Launch of the world’s most expensive malt” which of course ignited my interest to read on.
In the article, Rémy Cointreau CEO Jean-Marie Laborde is quoted:
Dans ce registre, Rémy Cointreau a acquis la distillerie de Bruichladdich fondée en 1881 sur l’île d’Islay, au large de l’Ecosse, avec la volonté d’y produire «le malt le plus cher du monde», a expliqué Jean-Marie Laborde, directeur général, exprimant une «ambition sans limite sur cette affaire», évaluée à 72,8 millions d’euros.
This essentially translates into “We have a limitless ambition to produce the world’s most expensive malt at Bruichladdich.”
If this article isn’t a case of sloppy journalism putting statements in between double quotes that a person never has said or meant this way (and we know such things do happen in journalism), this is explosive news indeed.
It seems Mr. Laborde is destined to Dalmorize Bruichladdich, moving away from the Progressive Hebridean Distillers niche to the glitzy world of ‘luxury’ bottlings and crystal decanters we have come to be flooded with recently. Keeping in mind that from 1996 to 2003 Jean-Marie Laborde was CEO of Moët & Chandon belonging to LVMH, this move is hardly a surprise.
Evidently, such a change of direction is not in the spirit in which the previous owners, and Mark Reynier in particular, had run the distillery. And I am almost 100% sure that Jean-Marie Laborde did not mention such plans during the takeover talks. Rather the owners (naively?) believed that apart from the intriguing prospect of doubling the production nothing would change for the time being. L’argent fait tout.
Another question of course is how exactly Bruichaddich wants to fulfill this threatpromise. World’s most expensive whisky better be old. Do they still have high quality old stock to create bottlings on eye level with the most expensive 50+ year old Macallans, Glenfiddichs and Dalmores? I don’t think Mr. Laborde wants to wait 40 more years until the new stock has come to that age. He is already over 60 and I am sure that he wants to taste the fruits of his limitless ambition while still alive.
Als je voor veel geld, héél véél zelfs, je bedrijf verkoopt is het van een ander, die er vervolgens mee doet wat hij wil, zo simpel is dat. Waar komen toch al die over-idealistische ideeën vandaan 