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Scottish artist helps war-torn places

WORK commissioned from a Scottish artist will be sold to help survivors in war-torn countries. Frank To has been appointed as an ambassador by IM,...

Nico launches Home-X website

CHEF Nico Simeone has teamed up with his marketing chief, Michael Sim, to create Home-X, a website through which customers can order food and drink....

Works begins on Mull hotel refit

WORK has begun on a redevelopment project at the Isle of Mull Hotel & Spa. More than £3 million will be invested in the scheme...

Strathallan School introduces ‘virtual reality tours’

A PERTHSHIRE school has introduced "virtual reality tours" to let prosepective pupils and their parents see inside the institution. Online visitors can view Strathallan's boarding...

‘The King’ helps out ‘The Prince’

DRINKS brand The King's Ginger will donate 10% of its sales to The Prince’s Countryside Fund from 1 January. The ginger spirit was created in...

‘Frank – get the book!’

COMEDIAN Janey Godley is among presenter Damian Barr's guests in the first episode of The Big Scottish Book Club, which returns to the BBC Scotland channel...

WHISKY

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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

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

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

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’

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

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

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...