Sweet like Wine: Love Your Dimples Even More-Chapter 98 - 56: Peated Whiskey_2

There’s a saying that the nature of a place nurtures its people, perhaps referring to this kind of magic.

Sean Lowell and Gordon Sterling landed on Islay from the Port Allen dock.

This is the port where Sean previously found the warehouse of old newspapers, and also the port where the Port Aelen Distillery is located.

Port Aelen Distillery and Brunschwig Distillery were closed around the same time.

The few whiskey distilleries on Islay that closed in the early eighties failed to catch a good time.

Port Aelen Distillery is now part of The Diageo Group, the world’s largest alcohol company, a group that once extended an olive branch to the recently withdrawn Sean Lowell.

Sean Lowell was the talent they wanted to recruit five years ago; they just hadn’t anticipated then that Sean Lowell would inherit the mantle of The Divine Palate.

The members of The Dump Me Alliance are unaware of Sean Lowell’s visit to Islay.

However, for the distilleries on Islay, it is no secret.

After all, Elder Ford didn’t just ask someone at the hotel to look after his beloved protégé. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

The last batch of whiskey from the Port Aelen Distillery from the late 1970s and early 1980s, as the mysterious formula for The Diageo Group’s top whiskey—Johnnie Walker Blue Label—and the favorite of independent bottling masters, is getting more and more popular.

This popularity prompted The Diageo Group to invest 35 million British Pounds to restart the long-closed Port Aelen and another comparatively less legendary Brolan Distillery.

If Westwood Brunswick and Hieronymus Brunswick brothers were still alive, who knows if they would regret their decision to offend the entire Scotland Whisky Association rather than sell the distillery.

Time cannot be rewound nor fast-forwarded. People cannot foresee even what will happen in the next five minutes, let alone what will happen in the coming decades.

After all, a closed distillery being able to restart and retain its brand is quite a rare occurrence.

The luck of Port Aelen is not only related to the quality of whiskey the distillery once produced but also to the name itself.

Port Aelen Port Allen is a place name; Port means port, and Allen is a transliteration, which is the exact place Sean Lowell and Gordon Sterling are landing at right now, called Port Allen.

Port Allen is a relatively bustling area of Islay; restarting a distillery named after a port has no familial inheritance implication.

The whiskey produced by Brunschwig Distillery in the late seventies is the most popular now, indeed leading other distilleries by decades, which was why Mr. Westwood looked down on the skills of other distilleries back then.

It’s the feeling of being aloof and unmatched.

The Brunschwig Family has its own brewing techniques passed down through generations.

Five hundred years of tradition, never interrupted.

The last Master of Brewing from the Brunschwig Family started training his sons when they were just three years old.

He had three sons and two daughters, considered a relatively "productive" bunch of heirs in the Brunschwig Family.

Westwood never expected to face a massacre, while Hieronymus insisted on the belief of never letting marketing-driven whiskey devour the family distillery.

No matter how times change, the Brunschwig Family insists on using the most traditional ways to brew whiskey.

Hand-turning the wort, traditional wooden fermentation vats, even the aging barrels are manually rolled, never using any modern tools.

The ultimate consequence, of course, is an extinction more agonizing than being acquired.

But people are like this; it’s rare for someone to give up all their persistence after having paid a painful price for something.

This would render the original beliefs and persistence worthless.

Sean Lowell and Gordon Sterling, after arriving at Port Allen, were picked up by people waiting at the dock and taken to Port Aelen Distillery.

As the world’s largest alcohol group, The Diageo Group cannot adopt an attitude like the Brunschwig Family, of being aloof, unimpressed by traditional virtues leading everything.

Taking advantage of the "affinity" when Sean Lowell was still an unknown and hadn’t inherited The Divine Palate mantle, the distillery’s marketing manager hopes "The Jilted" can promote Port Aelen whiskey.

Artie Vaughn can imagine that there’s no reason the global number one alcohol group’s marketing manager would remain indifferent after realizing that wave of "divine operations."