{"id":33308,"date":"2019-12-18T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/2019\/12\/18\/armorik-pioneer-of-french-whisky\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T12:51:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T11:51:10","slug":"armorik-pioneer-of-french-whisky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/en\/2019\/12\/18\/armorik-pioneer-of-french-whisky\/","title":{"rendered":"Armorik, pioneer of French whisky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 id=\"the-breton-company-warenghem-a-pioneer-of-french-whisky-became-this-autumn-the-first-french-whisky-distillery-to-receive-the-state-label-epv-entreprise-du-patrimoine-vivant-saluting-its-e\">The Breton company <a href=\"https:\/\/distillerie-warenghem.com\/fr\/\">Warenghem<\/a>, a pioneer of French whisky, became this autumn the first French whisky distillery to receive the state label EPV &#8211; entreprise du patrimoine vivant -, saluting its exceptional know-how.<\/h3>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1086\" height=\"805\" src=\"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20110322-IMG_1566.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20110322-IMG_1566.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20110322-IMG_1566-800x593.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20110322-IMG_1566-320x237.jpg 320w, https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20110322-IMG_1566-560x415.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1086px) 100vw, 1086px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>When it was founded in 1900, under the impulse of L\u00e9on Warenghem, the eponymous Breton distillery articulated its work around a motto: &#8220;gwelloc&#8217;h bepred&#8221; &#8211; in Breton: &#8220;always excellence&#8221;. The formula, although a bit pompous, was to guide the company on a path made of audacity and risk-taking, making it a pioneer at all times. <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Armorik-10ans-e&#x301;tui-et-bouteille-_-detoure&#x301;-822x1024-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1637\" width=\"294\" height=\"366\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<p>It is the first one to elaborate  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/2019\/06\/02\/lautre-nation-du-whisky\/\">a French whisky<\/a><\/strong>  at the beginning of the 80&#8217;s; it, still, which acquires before the others, in 1993, of<strong>a distillery entirely dedicated to whisky<\/strong>  in 1998, which launched  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/armorik.bzh\/\">Armorik<\/a>, the first French single malt<\/strong>  and it&#8217;s her, finally, who unveils the first one, in 2018,  <strong>a French single malt with a noble age statement: ten years<\/strong> ! This whisky, the new ambassador of French whisky, is characterized by a great balance between power and roundness, by the domination of fruity and spicy notes evolving around a saline thread, and by a long finish.<\/p>\n\n<p>Warenghem&#8217;s authentic know-how and ongoing quest for excellence earned it, in the fall of 2019, t<strong>he EPV label &#8211; enterprise of living heritage<\/strong> &#8211; making it <strong>the first French whiskey distillery to join this closed circle of exceptional French houses.<\/strong> To consolidate its position and look to the future with serenity, the Breton company has also acquired two new cellars in 2019, which will <strong>triple its capacity to store whisky for aging.<\/strong> It has also given itself a new reception area, articulated around a tasting room, an exhibition area and a projection room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Breton company Warenghem, a pioneer of French whisky, became this autumn the first French whisky distillery to receive the state label EPV &#8211; entreprise du patrimoine vivant -, saluting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1207,1045,846,931,787,1206,786],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/distillerie_warenghem_072018-71jpg_41561230610_o.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33309,"href":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33308\/revisions\/33309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33308"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhonoremagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=33308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}