To celebrate its 200th anniversary, athletics club Leander Club will be selling a limited quantity of Grande Champagne Vintage Cognac 1990, with packaging designed by strategic brand design agency Bluemarlin, to raise funds for its elite development programme of rowing athletes.Bluemarlin was tasked with creating a label and outer box that reflected the traditional codes of the Cognac world while also capturing the aspirational spirit of Leander Club and its values of integrity, teamwork, focus and commitment. The project demanded a premium execution with a high level of craftsmanship to commemorate 200 years of outstanding achievementOrnate yet dignified, the design for Leander Club’s Commemorative Cognac embodies tradition, excellence, and achievement. The design features Leander Club’s logo, embossed in gold and prominently placed in the centre of the bottle - a Hippo walking across the torse of the shield of the Star and Arrow, homage to the two original rowing clubs that founded Leander in 1818. The inscription reads, 'Corpus Leandri Spes Mea', which roughly translates to 'the limbs of Leander and my hopes'.Elegant gold foil lettering further extols the bicentenary event as well as the premium quality of the Cognac. The back of label tells the story of the Cognac, from its distillation twenty-eight years ago to its maturation in English cellars, and a description of its outstandingly delicate and floral nature by a Master of Wine. Labels were applied by hand and the bottles were individually wrapped in bespoke Leander ‘pink’ tissue paper. Finally, each bottle of Cognac was placed in wooden box with the Leander’s Hippo, crossed oars, and the commemorative dates of 1818 - 2018 burned onto the lid.