Thread by @fxdurandy

🇵🇰🥃🇮🇳 Both Pakistani and Indian companies market a locally manufactured #brandy called “Doctor(’s)”. 1/6

But if you look at the Pakistani brandy’s label, made by Murree Brewery, you’ll notice that it’s supposedly produced “under arrangement with Dr Gourgand & Co, 16100 France”. This caught my attention. 2/6

16100 is the postcode for the city of #Cognac, which gave its name to one of the world’s best-known types of brandy. 3/6

French Cognac is among the most expensive spirits. One of the bottles owned by late @chintskap (at 0’28 in this video 👇🏼) was worth around INR 2 lakhs. 4/6

https://twitter.com/sunilkapoor8/status/1281649265337487360?s=20

🇳🇴🥃🇫🇷 But what about “Dr Gourgand”? A short research revealed that the brand was registered in 1931 by Jens-Reidar Larsen, a Norwegian businessman who had settled in Cognac and married Gillette Gourgand. It’s safe to assume that the doctor was a relative on his wife’s side. 5/6

Thank you for your attention. Remember that brandy is not a medicine. Please drink srepsinosbly. 6/6