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Finalists revealed for this year’s Food and Drink Awards
The North East Scotland Food and Drink Awards are this year celebrating 30 years of recognising and rewarding excellence and innovation from the area’s food and drink producers. This year 32 businesses across the region are celebrating after reaching the finals of the Awards 2020 following 71 entries across all categories. Delivered by Opportunity North…
Read MoreBiggar getting set to welcome fiddle sessions
The first Blazin’ in Biggar fiddle celebration will take place this summer. Being held on 6 and 7 June, the weekend of music classes and sessions will be hosted by Blazin’ Fiddles in the Gillespie Centre, right in the heart of the South Lanarkshire village. The event is a sister fiddle school to the well-established…
Read MoreGlasgow Distillery launch G52 botanical vodka
The Glasgow Distillery Company has launched an innovative new range of vodka, G52 Botanical Vodka, which places botanicals at the heart of the spirit. G52 Botanical Vodka is handcrafted at the Glasgow Distillery using a range of carefully considered botanicals in order to create a complex and sophisticated spirit, boasting 100% natural ingredients with no…
Read MoreA powerful new play aims to break the silence
Life and health are a lottery – that’s the theme The Islets of Silence (The C Word). The play has written by Isobel Barrett, director of Glasgow-based theatre production company Tram Direct. Isobel has written this play from the heart. It centres around the Gourlay family, who are dealing with everyday situations most of us…
Read MoreCelebrating the artistic achievements of women
Glasgow Print Studio is holding an event to mark International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month 2020. GPS will present Graphic Impact: Our Lives in Print, an exhibition which highlights and celebrates the contribution women have made to the organisation since its inception in 1972. The exhibition features work from the GPS Archive, new works…
Read MoreCathburn Farm has been modernised and upgraded
A refurbished former farmhouse in central Scotland is now on the property market. Presented by Robb Residential, the assets at Cathburn Farm will be highly appealing to many, including hobby farmers, those with equestrian interests and buyers seeking the peace and privacy that comes from having extended and protected land boundaries. Cathburn Farm was at…
Read MoreFresh flavour for historic Royal Mile building
Gladstone’s Land, the National Trust for Scotland’s Royal Mile townhouse is undergoing a £1.4 million transformation over the next few months. The National Trust for Scotland is updating the visitor experience at the 500-year-old building, creating a new ‘ice cream and coffee parlour’ on the ground floor which weaves 17th century details in to the…
Read MoreDistell collect 11 trophies at World Whisky Awards 2020
Bunnahabhain, Tobermory and Deanston’s distilleries are among Distell’s 11 award wins at this year’s highly acclaimed World Whiskies Awards. The group’s range of Scottish single malts featured heavily across numerous categories. Tobermory Distillery, which produces both Tobermory Whisky and peated expression, Ledaig, uses the colourful cottages and the island’s natural beauty as inspiration throughout the…
Read MoreRevised plans submitted for new Islay distillery
Elixir Distillers’ plans to build a distillery on Islay is a step closer to reality submitting revised plans. Co-founders Sukhinder and Rajbir Singh want to build at a location just outside of Port Ellen, where their proposted the distillery would seek to combine the best elements of tradition and modernity in both design and production.…
Read MoreRare Scotch whiskies going under the hammer
A number of sought-after Scotch whiskies are going to auction at Sotheby’s next month. This includes four private collection decanters numbered ‘1’ directly from Gordon & MacPhail, a complete collection of The Macallan Six Pillars and the Macallan 72 Year Old. The Sotheby’s Wine and Spirits sales on 18 March will feature a total of…
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