There’s been so much hype about distilleries...but the reality is most of them are not going to survive
An international legal brawl with Pernod Ricard and the threat of expulsion from the Irish whiskey trade group have done nothing to dent André Levy’s ambitions
CV: André Levy
Role: founder of Protégé International
Age:64
Hobbies: Music, specifically jazz, and reading
Favourite movies: Chinatown and Godfather II
Favourite book: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
André Levy, the founder of drinks distributor Protégé International, is a pugnacious character.
Small and dapper, well-tanned and with curly hair, he’s British of French origin and married to Mairade Levy (nee Kelly), an Irishwoman.
It’s hardly surprising, then, that when he was ...
