LATEST POSTS

Plaster-cast-of-the-skull-of-Robert-Burns

Ten facts you probably never knew about Burns

From fashion designers and fizzy drinks to space travel and Sex and the City, Robert Burns has impacted on our global culture in many diverse and...

Saying it with flowers – and a Botanical Bouquet

Edinburgh Gin is launching a gin-first, Botanical Bouquets, in time for Valentine's Day. The Scottish distiller has played Cupid, coupling up two of Valentine’s most...
image1-0021

Delight as Mull spirits company takes bronze award

An Isle of Mull based spirits company has won an international taste award for its gin. Whitetail Gin, based at Tiroran, has been awarded bronze...
Ardbeg_AnOa bottle & box high res

Mark Burns Night with a dram in a beautiful glass

Beat those January blues by celebrating Burns Night and enjoy a wee dram of whisky in the official whisky tasting glass. If January feels as though...

They’re in the pink with colour changing gin

A Scots distillery is spreading the love this Valentine’s Day, offering a quirky alternative to the traditional gifting of roses, with its unique colour-changing gin....

Scots author’s book wins 2019 Bookbug Picture Book Prize

A Scots author and children's book publisher has won the 2019 Bookbug Picture Book Prize. Alan Windram's book, One Button Benny (Little Door Books), which...

WHISKY

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL DRINK

Jamie Ewan and Lachlan Maclean.

Sharks and 30ft waves: The deadly risks facing three Scots on a 14,000km Pacific row

For most people, shark-infested waters, mammoth waves, and fish that can pierce a boat’s hull would be the stuff of nightmares.  But for Jamie, Ewan,...
Black Isle Distillery - Courtyard_final

Plans unveiled for new distillery to resurrect Ferintosh whisky on Black Isle

Plans for a new distillery on the Black Isle which will resurrect long lost Scottish whisky Ferintosh have been unveiled.  Ferintosh was once the largest...
LLG - Luss

Plans for a distillery on banks of Loch Lomond given the go-ahead

Plans for a new distillery on the banks of Loch Lomond have been given the go-ahead. Loch Lomond Group has been given permission by Argyll...
image (24)

Producer’s Corner: RyeLaw, InchDairnie Distillery

When Fife based distiller InchDairnie launched RyeLaw, the world's first malted rye whisky, a few eyebrows were raised.  Inspired by the quintessentially American Rye whisky,...
Harrison-KV-Kilt-Mountain-Stance

Once Upon a Time in Scotland: Hollywood legend Harrison Ford becomes the new face of Glenmorangie whisky

Hollywood legend Harrison Ford has become the new face of Glenmorangie whisky as he dons on kilt in a series of short films released to...
Highland Park_Gordon Motion Master Whisky Maker

A dram with Gordon Motion, Highland Park: ‘Highland Park 56 started back in 1968, it’s our oldest and rarest whisky’

Since its beginnings as a 'side-hustle' of church beadle and whisky smuggler Magnus ‘Mansie’ Eunson, Highland Park has been an iconic part of the global...

Author