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Push The Boat Out is Scotland’s newest poetry event

Culture
Scotland’s newest and most boundary-bending poetry festival, launches its inaugural programme today, Wednesday 8 September in Edinburgh. Taking place from October 15–17 within the creative...
The amazing scenic view over Loch Katrine (Photo: Paul Saunders)

Big plans in store at birthplace of Scottish tourism

Outdoors | Scotland
A new development at the birthplace of Scottish tourism has been given the go-ahead. The Steamship Sir Walter Scott Trust has received the green light...
A Warwick Vase from Italy, made in the 2nd century but reconstructed in the 18th century

Opening date for Glasgow’s Burrell Collection announced

Culture
The Burrell Collection in Glasgow will reopen in March 2022 following an ambitious building upgrade and redisplay, the charity Glasgow Life has confirmed. As Kier...

Win the chance to be published with the 2022 Kelpies Prize

Books | Culture
This year’s Kelpies Prizes have opened, giving hopeful Scottish authors and illustrators of children's books the chance to kickstart a career. The Kelpies Prize for...

Find out about Perthshire Open Studios in our podcast

Culture
This week's Scottish Field podcast is now available, with Glenys Andrews, president of Perthshire Open Studios, as our guest. Podcast host Kenny Smith reminds you...
Ian Rankin (Photo: Simon Williams)

Tickets still available for Royal Scots Club Literary Lunches

Books | Culture
Scots crime writers Ian Rankin, Lin Anderson and Lesley Kelly are the special guests of the Royal Scots Club, at their new series of themed...
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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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