Tag: whisky
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Burns Night 2025
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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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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Student roots
Academic beginnings My first published article was in the St Andrews Geography Society magazine – funnily, it is about drink… but whisky. You can read it below – just remember it was tongue in cheek and my very first piece of public writing. I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to do when I “grew…
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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 