(Het zal vast al ergens op dit Forum staan (ik kon 't niet vinden), en wellicht heb ik het in de verkeerde rubriek geplaatst. Indien nodig, verplaats of verwijder dit bericht a.u.b.)
LETTER FROM ISLAY
SPIRIT GUIDE. Reinventing a great distillery.
BY KELEFA SANNEH
11.02.2013
One day in 1989, a man on a bicycle arrived at the gates of a whisky distillery called Bruichladdich. The distillery sits across the road from the North Atlantic Ocean, on a wild and blustery Scottish island called Islay. The man was Mark Reynier, a third-generation wine dealer from London, who was on vacation with his brother. Their primary objective would have been clear to any passing driver: each bicycle had, strapped to its handlebars, a bundle of golf clubs. At the distillery, Reynier was hoping to achieve his secondary objective. He had grown obsessed with Bruichladdich whisky, an unheralded product known, to those who knew about it, for its unusual delicacy and complexity. He says, “It had the elegance, balance, finesse, harmony—everything I’d been brought up to look for in a great wine, and there it was in a spirit."
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