Ian Lauria-Post


BHAKTA SPIRITSBHAKTA holds the oldest collection of Armagnac on Earth, with vintages dating back to 1868, alongside rare vintage rum and rye. Founded by Raj Peter Bhakta and Leo Gibson after they built WhistlePig, the house runs on a single idea: time in a bottle.

The brief was to introduce a house of rare spirits to an American audience that had never heard of it. Every heritage spirits brand runs on the same three forces: time, scarcity, and a keeper of the craft. I built the platform around all three, making the founder's own discovery story the campaign itself.

I developed the campaign end-to-end: the hero brand film with Raj, a ten-part tasting series shot inside the Armagnac library, product imagery at the Vermont campus, social and paid cutdowns, and the experiential brand event that closed the campaign. The hero film passed 125,000 organic views in its first week.


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