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Let’s talk about… storing whisky
The experts from the Edinburgh Whisky Academy share their top tips for looking after your Scotch. A CANDIDATE contacted us recently to ask whether a...
Some NTS sites stay shut to 2022 as £2.5m emergency plea opens
THE National Trust for Scotland has launched an "emergency appeal" to raise £2.5 million so it can reopen some of its properties - but warned...
Buchan filmmaker reaches overseas lockdown fans
A FILMMAKER from Aberdeenshire has found a new international audience for her videos about the Buchan coastline during lockdown. Jill McWilliam, who runs the Doric Future...
Robert Burns and Harry Potter go under the hammer
LETTERS written by the national bard and a signed copy of the first Harry Potter novel are among the lots up for sale on Wednesday at...
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Ardnahoe Distillery: First whisky to come from a new distillery on Islay since 2009 released
It has been six decades since Stewart Laing first learned how to make whisky on Islay. In the 1960s he travelled to the world-famous whisky...
Kiefer Sutherland: Hollywood star brings new whisky to the UK
Hollywood star Kiefer Sutherland has unveiled his new whisky to the UK, a homage to his Canadian roots and love of the spirit. The whisky,...
Life With Isle of Harris Distillery: ‘The Hearach is special, it has done so much for the island’
Isle of Harris distiller Thomas Macrae talks to us about his earliest memories of whisky and why The Hearach is so special to islanders. And...
Lerwick Distillery: Shetland set for its first whisky distillery
The idea began more than a decade ago when friends Martin Watt, Caroline MacIntyre and Calum Miller came up with the idea to open the...