Tag: drinks
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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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A toast to Skye
Inspired by its stunning surroundings, the renowned Skye restaurant, the Three Chimneys, has created its own signature gin. Collaborating with North Point Distillery, the team turned to the landscape around its location at Colbost beside Loch Dunvegan to create a spirit to compliment the Three Chimney’s reputation for fine food and exclusive retreats. It is…
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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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Kirkcudbright gin
St Andrew’s Day and time to celebrate a Scottish gin. I was in Galloway last week and took the opportunity to seek out the Dark Arts distillery in Kirkcudbright. It’s a wee gem. It’s part of the Johnston – a former primary school – which also houses the Dark Space planetarium. You can’t miss the…
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French spirit
Amazing what gin you come across on a short break in France. Pays basques is home to several … and people were proud to show them off. Charente (home of Cognac) also gets in on the act. First up is Brana and in particular it’s espelette flavoured gin. You can’t visit Biarritz or St Jean…
The GIN CLAN 