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Your chance to become a whisky distiller for a day

Food and Drink

Scottish whisky's spiritual home is giving a lucky individual the chance to be a distiller for a day. Lindores Abbey Distillery has announced the competition,...

New Scottish gin gets a capital launch

Food and Drink | Gin

A new Scottish gin was launched earlier this month in the heart of the capital. Kinrara Distillery launched into Edinburgh with a gathering of friends...

Scottish Opera premier will be all Greek in New York

Culture

Opera fans will have the chance to see Scottish Opera and Opera Ventures’ co-production of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek in the Big Apple this December when...

Book review – Ghost by Helen Grant

Books | Scotland

What’s the story? Ghost is the tale of Augusta McAndrew, a girl living on a remote Scottish estate with her elderly grandmother Rose. She knows...

Learn skills that helped build walls across Scotland

Outdoors

Traditional skills are at the heart of a course which is coming to Aberdeenshire next month. Building and repairing dry stone walls is at the...

The appliance of science helps create new gin

Food and Drink | Gin | Scotland

A Scottish distiller announce the launch of its debut gin - based on a scientific understanding of flavour compounds. The Oro Distilling Company has released...

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How the UK–India trade deal opens door in the Scotch whisky industry

Cask and Still | Whisky

Euan Duncan, a Partner at law firm Morton Fraser MacRoberts, on how the UK–India trade deal will affect Scottish whisky and the importance of geographical...

Scottish Field Summer Challenge 2025 Results

Cask and Still

For 25 years – a quarter of a century – the Scottish Field Whisky Challenge has been helping readers to discover some of the best...

A Dram with Stewart Bowman, Lochranza: ‘Whisky is not just about making something to drink. It’s about the people and the place, it’s a journey’

Cask and Still | Whisky

Lochranza distillery manager Stewart Bowman chats about his career in whisky, his favourite flavour profiles and what makes Lochranza and Arran whisky so special. ...

Ardbeg Smokiverse explores a new high gravity dimension

Food and Drink | Whisky | Whisky News

Islay-based Ardbeg Distillery has unveiled Ardbeg Smokiverse - its new limited-edition release to mark Ardbeg Day 2025, which takes place on Saturday 31st May as the...

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Glen Scotia reveals oldest ever whisky – a 50-year-old that’s the first edition in its new Elements series

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky

Glen Scotia has unveiled a 50-year-old as the first edition in its new Elements of Campbeltown collection. The Elements of Campbeltown Collection takes inspiration from...

The Macallan unveils single malts inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh – including rare 46 Year Old

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky

The Macallan has launched two single malts inspired by Scottish artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh, including a 46 Year Old whisky. Inspired by Mackintosh’s 1902 stained-glass...