Posts Tagged ‘production’
New whisky tours to get underway in Edinburgh
An exclusive new whisky tour of Edinburgh is set to get underway next month to mark World Whisky Day. As plans for Edinburgh’s first single malt whisky distillery in 90 years and a £150 million pound immersive whisky visitor experience in the historic capital city are announced, award winning storytellers, Mercat Tours are encouraging locals…
Read MoreCelebrating whisky festival with a new dram
A special bottling is being released by a boutique distillers exclusively at the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival next month. GlenAllachie has revealed it is releasing a special bottling , The Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival 2018, a 12-year-old single cask that was personally selected by Billy Walker, GlenAllachie’s master distiller. With 1,028 50cl bottles…
Read MoreSpecial release marks 20 years of Benromach
The Benromach Distillery Company Ltd is today marking a significant milestone in the distillery’s history with the release of its 20th anniversary bottling. This special whisky celebrates 20 years since production started at Benromach after the distillery was refurbished and re-opened in 1998. Distilled in the first year of production, only 3000 bottles of this…
Read More‘Mas’ production: How Paul Mas makes quality in quantity
Returning to the Languedoc in the South of France, Peter Ranscombe examines how Paul Mas creates high-quality wines in large quantities. I LOVE it when a winemaker has a sense of humour – and the twinkle in his eye combined with the grin on his face told me that Jean-Claude Mas has that quality in…
Read MoreSeven ways to create your own sleep sanctuary
We spend a third of our lives in bed, so it makes sense to do it well. Sleep affects our health, productivity and happiness, so making sure you have a comfortable and cosy sleep sanctuary that encourages a restful sleep really can change your life. The experts over at Bedfolk who specialise in ultra-comfortable bedding…
Read MoreThe glass act in the heart of an Aberdeen park
Outside, it’s five degrees below. Inside the glasshouse at Duthie Park Winter Gardens in Aberdeen, steam rises as a gardener in shorts and flip-flops plays a hose across the floor. On a day like this, the Winter Gardens live up to their name; where else can you find bougainvillea in flower when there’s snow on…
Read MoreLearn the secrets of Scotland’s great tapestry
Visitors to New Lanark will find themselves stitched up in the coming weeks – in a good way! The 18th century cotton-spinning mill village and one of Scotland’s six UNESCO World Heritage Sites, will host the return of the Great Tapestry of Scotland with a brand new exhibition open this spring and summer, from 18…
Read MoreNew film will look at the Scottish Versailles
A group of students are working on a documentary film telling the forgotten story of a Scottish castle. Loudoun is a documentary film, currently in production, by staff, students and recent graduates of Edinburgh College of Art, concentrating on the origins of landscape design in Scotland around 1700. It tells the true story of how two…
Read MoreAberdeen bus shelters inspired new stage show
Creative ideas can come from many places – but a new show is probably the first to have been inspired by Aberdeen’s bus shelters. Aberdeen Performing Arts, through its producing arm Freshly Squeezed Productions, is supporting two local creatives to shape a new theatre show. Fine artist Kate Steenhauer and creative writer Shane Strachan first met…
Read More£5.8million funding in place for new distillery
Fundraising to create Edinburgh’s first single malt whisky distillery for 90 years has hit its £5.8million fundraising target. The drive to help fund the creation of the Holyrood Distillery and visitor experience, spanning 11,969 sq ft, in the heart of Scotland’s capital, has been led by Johnston Carmichael. The successful fundraising marks a pivotal milestone…
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