Category: whisky
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Female powered
On the western fringe of Norway there is a distillery founded – and funded – by women. I wrote about Feddie for Whisky Magazine last year, but like many others it started out distilling gin. Fedje is a small, wild, granite island. Lashed by damp winds off the North Sea and home to just 500…
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Galloway Burns Night
The birthday of Robert Burns on 25 January is an opportunity to celebrate Scotland’s southern-most whisky distillery. We probably all associate Robert Burns with his love of whisky, but we sometimes forget that he was also an excise officer – fighting the smugglers and illicit stills. Poetry wasn’t big business in those days and when…
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Author escape – Angus
NEXT ADVENTURE I sent the last text for my next book Yorkshire’s Gins to the publisher in January, and immediately set off to the East Coast of Scotland to do research for some articles based around the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath, the document asking the Pope to recognise Scotland’s independence and acknowledge…
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A whisky lass?
A whisky lass? Cards on the table: my malt heritage is rather unconventional – I have been a public relations consultant for an Indian malt whisky distiller. I had just left a PR job with a multi-national electronics company when an industry contact suggested I met a friend of hers who was looking for some…
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A gin adventure
How did I get into this gin adventure? It all started back in my days of freelancing. And one of my editors commissioned me to write about Edinburgh Gin. For a whisky lass, who had been working with a malt distiller for a decade, this was an eye opener. All those lovely botanical flavours could…
The GIN CLAN 