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CATEGORY BUILDING2022 – 2024

New World Whiskey

A white paper that moved the industry.

Framed, researched, and launched DV's flagship thought leadership. The piece founders quoted in their decks for years afterward.

White paperThought leadershipTrade press
THE INSIGHT

Whiskey's next decade isn't being written in Scotland or Kentucky.

The white paper made the argument that's now obvious. The most interesting whiskey was coming out of Japan, Australia, Tasmania, India, Israel. We built a publication the trade could quote, founders could forward to retailers, and buyers could lean on when they made the case for shelf space.

We treated the launch as a media event, not a PDF drop. In-person trade briefings. Quoted partner commentary. Reproducible data. The piece became a referenced artefact in the category for years. The kind of thought leadership that pays off every time a founder mentions it unprompted.