This has to be the worst positioning of a premium product I’ve seen recently. Marketing a high-end single malt as “organic” is not just redundant; it makes self-conscious what is already embedded in the entire concept of the single-malt: local, hand-crafted, artisanal. Adding “organic” to the pitch for single malt is like the Carlyle hotel calling itself “VIP”. 

This has to be the worst positioning of a premium product I’ve seen recently. Marketing a high-end single malt as “organic” is not just redundant; it makes self-conscious what is already embedded in the entire concept of the single-malt: local, hand-crafted, artisanal. Adding “organic” to the pitch for single malt is like the Carlyle hotel calling itself “VIP”.