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Read MoreGlenWyvis: World’s first fully community owned distillery offers whisky lovers chance to buy shares
In 2015, former Army Air Corps helicopter pilot John McKenzie decided to bring whisky back to Dingwall after a 90 year absence. His idea was to unite the community of Dingwall through the creation of a distillery owned by local people. Just a year later the site made history running a record-breaking open share offer.…
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Review: Kyloe steakhouse, Edinburgh
I’M pretty picky when it comes to meat, and I make no apologies. After all, it’s not unreasonable to question what’s on your plate when parting with hard-earned cash. Where is it from? How was it reared? What are the welfare standards like? All too often, these questions are met with a disinterested shrug of…
Read MoreCharles Maclean: Whisky writer launches new charity dram with his sons
Scotland’s leading whisky writer Charles Maclean has launched a new dram – and every bottle sold will give at least one person clean water for life. The Ardnamurchan 6 Year Old single Highland malt is the first release by The Maclean Foundation, the Scottish charity founded by author Charles Maclean MBE and his three sons,…
Read MoreMe and My Dram, Tom Kitchin: ‘You have to be in the right moment to enjoy whisky, that’s the magic of it’
Following a rocky start, celebrity chef Tom Kitchin has fostered an enduring love for whisky, finds Morag Bootland. He sits down with us for the latest issue of Cask & Still. Do you enjoy whisky? Absolutely. I enjoy whisky, but I don’t think it was something that came automatically. I think I learned to enjoy whisky.…
Read MoreIsle of Harris: Distillery releases four new batches of the long awaited Hearach whisky
Last year the first batches of the long awaited Isle of Harris whisky sold out in less than five hours – after more than 25,000 people queued online to get their hands on the dram. Now, whisky fans have another chance to get a bottle of the liquid gold, as the island distillery has released…
Read MoreRosebank Distillery: ‘King of the Lowlands’ ready to re-open with 100-year-old mill still used in whisky production
It was closed three decades ago in 1993, but now the ‘King of the Lowlands’, Rosebank Distillery is to reopen. The historic distillery has been brought back to life following a four year restoration project. Its landmark 108ft chimney stack has been repaired and continues to dominate Falkirk’s skyline. The original mill, thought to be…
Read MorePort Ellen: The rebirth of Scotland’s legendary ghost distillery
The rebirth of Port Ellen distillery has been eagerly anticipated for years by the whisky community across the globe. Perhaps the most legendary of all Scotland’s ‘ghost’ distilleries, a term used to describe a number of sites closed in the 1980s and 1990s because of a slump in the market, it has lain silent since…
Read MoreInchDairnie Distillery: The Sample Room Range
Sponsored Content | InchDairnie Distillery has released a limited-edition collection, small-batch trilogy series. The Sample Room Range has been specifically created to challenge Scotch whisky conventions and showcase the experimentation that takes place at the distillery in the Kingdom of Fife. The series will launch exclusively with The Whisky Shop, across the 22 stores and…
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