Epilogue: the Bottom of the Glass
Firstly, dear reader, I am still here. My tour has not ended in ignominy and I am licking my wounds privately in Northumberland (there is still time, though). I’m typing from the spacious, if...
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Glengoyne
The picture doesn't show it, but I was battling a coach-load of new arrivals and the relentless traffic to gain a clear shot. The distillery sits on a very busy road indeed. Dumgoyne, Strathblane,...
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The Plaudits Post
I’m back now, and whilst I may miss my simple, if at times seriously debilitating life on the road, I am in a position to appreciate and marvel at the world of Scotch malt whisky on an entirely...
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Sacred Spirit
Will I be a collector when I grow up? Prior to my Scotch whisky odyssey I would have dismissed such a probability with a contemptuous “not on your nelly”. Perhaps as a consequence of the style of my...
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The Glengoyne Experiment
As one of the few independent whisky-makers in Scotland, producing some very lovely drams in a wide variety of styles as well as providing some mighty fine distillery tours in the process, I felt their...
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Go to Glengoyne – everyone else is doing it
Flocking to the Trossachs National Park, out of Glasgow’s northern back door, is nothing new. People have been tramping up the hills and cooing at the lochs for a couple of hundred years now since the...
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Christmas Crackers at Luvians
If you feel like leaving Santa more than milk and shortbread this Christmas, I’m sure the bearded North Pole dweller would point you in the direction of Luvians Bottle Shop, stuffed like an M&S...
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