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Wigtown Book Festival launches major national essay prize

Books | Culture
Wigtown Book Festival has announced the launch of a new national essay prize for Scotland in association with the BBC. The £1500 Anne Brown Essay...

New play based on Scotland’s first practising female doctor

Culture
A new play based on the life of Sophia Jex-Blake, Scotland's first practising female doctor, is to premiere next month. Pitlochry Festival Theatre, The Royal...

The August 2021 issue of Scottish Field is out now

Culture | Gin | Scotland
The August edition of Scottish Field has arrived in shops - and we're celebrating all things gin. This month, we reveal the results of the...
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Ten dog-friendly picnic spots to visit this summer

Outdoors
With summer in full-swing, it’s the perfect time of year to embrace the great outdoors by going for a walk and enjoying a picnic with...
Robert Burns's cottage in Alloway

Alloway to host Robert Burns festival this summer

Culture
Live music, performances and events will mark the anniversary of the first Burns Supper. The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum and cottage is hosting a five-day...
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Nine new works ready for the Pitlochry Festival Theatre

Culture
Pitlochry Festival Theatre is to premiere A Night by the River Tay, nine new works from some of Scotland's best known playwrights. Starting on Wednesday...
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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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