Sazerac Firm, whose portfolio contains Buffalo Hint Distillery and Fireball, has acquired Hazelwood Demesne Restricted, which owns Lough Gill Distillery in County Sligo, Eire.
Lough Gill’s manufacturing contains Athrú Irish single malt whisky.
In response to the corporate, Sazerac plans on totally creating the 100-plus-acre web site to create a “world-class whiskey facility and customer attraction, making it probably the most necessary tourism facilities within the West of Eire.” As soon as full, Lough Gill Distillery hopes to welcome as much as 150,000 guests yearly, whereas making a homeplace for Sazerac’s Irish Whiskeys, Paddy and Michael Collins.
Moreover, Sazerac plans to considerably develop the footprint of Lough Gill Distillery via rising the distillery’s capability, including warehousing capability and increasing manufacturing and bottling traces.
“With its wealthy historical past of distilling and storytelling, Eire is a perfect homeplace for our whiskey enterprise to flourish,” says Mark Brown, president and CEO of Sazerac. “Particularly, the historical past of the Lough Gill Distillery, courting again to the 18th century, shall be an integral keystone within the restoration and storytelling of this web site. We stay up for preserving the historical past, delighting our future guests by the tales we share, and additional increasing the expansion alternatives for Paddy, Michael Collins and Athrú Whiskeys.”
All present Lough Gill Distillery staff members will stay with the enterprise. It’s anticipated that Sazerac will improve employment after the enlargement.
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As a part of the acquisition, Sazerac will proceed the improvement of the Athrú model, together with world distribution.
“It is a main announcement for Sligo and a vote of confidence within the potential for Sligo to develop into a serious participant within the booming world Irish whiskey market,” says David Raethorne, founding father of the Lough Gill Distillery. “The acquisition will allow Lough Gill Distillery to completely develop as a world-class customer vacation spot and may have vital long run financial and tourism advantages for Sligo, which, for me, was at all times a private aim.”
“As well as, the upkeep and preservation works undertaken thus far on Hazelwood Home (a home of nationwide significance) have performed a vital half in saving it from dereliction,” Raethorne provides. “This acquisition will be sure that Hazelwood Home shall be loved and appreciated by generations to come back, one other key goal of the challenge. The Sazerac Firm announcement is a fruits of seven years of arduous work and dedication by the Board of Lough Gill Distillery and the broader staff, delivering on our unique 2015 imaginative and prescient, after we acquired the location. I wish to formally acknowledge the assist of Sligo County Council and its CEO Martin Lydon, which was a key driver within the choice for Sazerac to spend money on Sligo.”
In tandem with the acquisition, Lough Gill Distillery has introduced that former Bushmills Grasp Blender Helen Mulholland will be a part of the staff.
In 2018, Mulholland turned the primary lady to be inducted into the Worldwide Whisky Journal Corridor of Fame. Lately she turned the primary lady to obtain a Chairman’s Award for her contribution to the event of the Irish whiskey business.
Mulholland will lead Lough Gill Distillery’s staff in manufacturing and mixing. She’s going to take accountability for choice and administration of the casks for Athrú single malt whiskey.
“It’s a very thrilling time for Lough Gill Distillery,” says Mulholland. “I’m very honored to be becoming a member of the staff because it turns into the house of Paddy, Michael Collins and Athrú whiskies. The distillery, its location and the unimaginable staff already in place made this a very simple choice. I stay up for bringing my data as a Grasp Blender to the desk to allow us to make some actually world-class Irish whiskeys.”
This follows current information of Sazerac increasing distribution of of Sazerac de Forge & Fils Cognac.
