Jura Distillery: Welcome Casks

Posted by Mirko Herzner (Mühlheim am Main, Germany) on 13 December 2008 in Business & Industry and Portfolio.

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Comments (10)

paolo from Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, Italy

... you surely shoot this one before you welcome cask !
very nice white and brown frame, simple and nice.

13 Dec 2008 11:52am

@paolo: Thanks, Paolo.

António Pires from Lisbon, Portugal

Simple, well composed, very good image.
It seems to me that those islands you visited are small ones. How happen that there are distilleries in there? They grow the grain in the isles, they imported it? Is a matter of climate?

13 Dec 2008 12:05pm

@António Pires: Thanks to Armin you can find a very detailed answer to your questions in the comments...

Michael Skorulski from Cigel, Slovakia

Fabulously crisp and beautifully composed, Mirko.

13 Dec 2008 1:39pm

@Michael Skorulski: Thanks a lot, Michael!

Andrew Gould from Sydney, Australia

Superb clarity and a wonderful simplcity to the composition. Well thought out. Very pleasing from the aesthetic point of view .

13 Dec 2008 2:20pm

@Andrew Gould: Thanks Andrew. A very simple shot...

Shirin Moosavi from Tehran, Iran

Great frame! I love the bright white background!

13 Dec 2008 4:27pm

@Shirin Moosavi: Thank you, Shirin.

Armin from United Kingdom

Antonio,

it's mainly historic: Islay is fairly remote even until today, but was even more so 100+ years ago when most of the distilleries were founded. Being remote was helpful to evade the tax collectors. By the way, that's also one of the reasons why there are so many distillieries in Speyside.

Almost all of the barley is imported, only Bruichladdich (I'm guessing Mirko will still get there on his travels) is using barley actually grown on Islay. But that only contributes to part of the barley they actually need/use.

13 Dec 2008 10:00pm

@Armin: Thanks for your detailed answer, Armin. I could not have done any better :-) And yes, Bruichladdich will be covered here as well ;-)