What the No vote means for the British whisky sector
Paul Currie, founder and managing director of The Lakes Distillery
"This referendum has had a wholly positive effect on Scotland as a whole – the country has been energised and its people empowered. With this new energy and Scottish pride, we expect to see the country’s economy grow and exports – namely whisky and salmon – expand.
"As a small independent distillery, it is to our advantage that the Scotch whisky market is booming - an overall dip in international whisky sales could be detrimental to our business as anything which negatively affects the Scotch whisky market would negatively affect us, even as an English whisky distillery.
"This is undoubtedly a positive vote for the British Isles, both as a whole and for each of its countries. The Union unquestionably works better when together; each country has its strengths and is able to draw off its neighbours to counteract any weaknesses. We used the Union as our inspiration when creating the first ever blend of British whiskies, The ONE, which includes the best of each of the British countries, each ingredient enhancing the others."
- Paul Currie, founder and managing director of The Lakes Distillery
www.lakesdistillery.com
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The Lakes Distillery
Close to Bassenthwaite Lake, in an area of unimaginable beauty encircled by Cumbrian fells, is the perfect home for the first-ever Lakes Distillery.
The experienced team behind the Lakes Distillery, which includes managing director Paul Currie who co founded the Arran Distillery, Master Distiller Chris Anderson with over 30 years’ experience and Alan Rutherford a former Production Director of Diageo, are renovating the historic buildings of an old Victorian Model Farm next to the famous river Derwent and close to Bassenthwaite Lake, with the aim to produce a new world-class single malt whisky.
The water from the famous River Derwent, with its source high up in the fells, a team steeped in whisky experience, and perfect conditions for distilling are set to create a very special malt.
The Lakes Distillery will open to the public in late 2014. The Lakes single malt will begin production this summer, and its blended whisky from the British Isles, called The ONE, is available to buy now.
The ONE Whisky
The ONE is the first British blended whisky ever to be produced. As opposed to blends made only of scotch whiskies, The ONE has been carefully created from whiskies from around the British Isles, leading to a very unique whisky. This is very much an artisan blend - the team in Cumbria has enormous experience in making the very finest whiskies, and their expertise has put together this outstanding blend, which has a lightly peated character.
Blended whiskies are made up of grain and malt whiskies, and it is the quantity of malt whisky in the blend that dictates the quality – so the more malt whisky in the blend, the better the quality. The ONE has a very high malt content and its quality is very much in line with single malt whiskies.
