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Photo caption: More than 1,200 international performers from more than ten nations will open the show at Edinburgh Castle this Friday (3 August). This year’s Tattoo (3-25 August) will celebrate ‘The Sky’s the Limit’ taking audiences on a journey of human evolution to man’s greatest achievements. The theme will mark Scotland’s Year of Young People and pay homage to the RAF’s centenary.

Top Secret Drum Corps are heading to the Tattoo

Culture | Music | Scotland
Swiss drumming sensation, The Top Secret Drum Corps, has been revealed as the first confirmed international act to take to the Castle Esplanade when The...
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The Scandal at Mayerling ready to open this week

Culture
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s iconic ballet about a dysfunctional royal family, depicting shocking real events from 1889, opens for its new tour in Glasgow this week....
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Scottish Opera coming to our television screens

Culture
On Easter Sunday (17 April), the new Scottish Opera production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers, described by audiences as ‘wonderful and heartwarming’, is scheduled...

Auld Bride – a Glencairn Glass crimewriting prize runner-up

Culture | Scotland
The Glencairn Glass – the world's favourite whisky glass – has been celebrating Scottish crime writing talent over the past two years. It's been the...

Teardrops – a Glencairn Glass crimewriting prize runner-up

Culture | Scotland
The world’s favourite whisky glass – The Glencairn Glass – has been celebrating Scottish crime writing talent over the past two years as headline sponsor...

The May 2022 Scottish Field is out now

Culture | Scotland
The latest issue of Scottish FIeld puts the focus on one of Scotland's most endangered birds, the capercaillie. In our May edition, our monthly wildlife...
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WHISKY

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL DRINK

Since its humble beginnings nearly ten years ago, the distillery has generated £50,000 for the local community.

GlenWyvis: World’s first fully community owned distillery offers whisky lovers chance to buy shares

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
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...
HRH Prince Charles with Ian Urquhart Signing First Cask at Benromach.

Former Gordon & MacPhail chief Ian Urquhart dies following an illness

Cask and Still | Whisky
Scotch whisky legend Ian Urquhart has died aged 76. The Moray based businessman died peacefully on 15 March after an illness, with his family by...
Ewan, Jamie, Charlie and Lachlan Maclean.

Charles Maclean: Whisky writer launches new charity dram with his sons

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
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...
Chef Tom Kitchin. Credit Marc Miller

Me and My Dram, Tom Kitchin: ‘You have to be in the right moment to enjoy whisky, that’s the magic of it’

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
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...
The first legal dram from the Outer Hebridean Isle of Harris, The Hearach offers an elegant single malt, with fruit and floral notes and a long, slightly smoky, finish.

Isle of Harris: Distillery releases four new batches of the long awaited Hearach whisky

Cask and Still | 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...
Rosebank Distillery.

Rosebank Distillery: ‘King of the Lowlands’ ready to re-open with 100-year-old mill still used in whisky production

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
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...
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