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Scotland’s top dogs were pointing the way ahead

Outdoors
So many popular activities held in Scotland are currently on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. We turn the clock back to March 2016, when...

Tickets are now available for StAnza poetry event

Culture
Would-be attendees for Scotland's international poetry festival are being urged to pay what they can, for its digital edition in 2021. Tickets are now available...
Thomas Stewart

Eleven recipients for New Writers Awards 2021

Books | Culture
The Scottish Book Trust has revealed the recipients of New Writers Awards 2021. The group of 11 in the New Writers Awards 2021 are a...
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall was one of the venues used [Photo: Gaelle Berri]

Celtic Connections online a huge success

Culture
The digital-first Celtic Connections festival has been hailed as a great success with an abundance of international viewers and unprecedented number of tickets sold. The...

Shetland firm makes Scotland’s first lamb biltong

Food and Drink | News
A COMPANY on Shetland is launching a range of biltong - including Scotland's first lamb biltong. J&G Shetland, which owns Sound service station, will start...

East Haugh House launches Valentine’s Day dine at home box

Food and Drink | News
A RESTAURANT near Pitlochry has launched the first dine at home experience in its 32-year history. East Haugh House's "Valentine's Dinner Box for Two" contains...
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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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