Peter Holroyd is Distillery Manager at Kingsbarns in Fife. We speak to him about the birth of the distillery, their sustainability initiatives and working for a close-knit family-run business.    In 2008, Peter Holroyd was just finishing a degree in Brewing and Distilling at Herriot Watt University in Edinburgh. That summer, he took up a temporary job at St Austell Brewery in Cornwall.   “That was where I cut my teeth in […]

Lindores Abbey is a Scottish distillery with a history dating back to 1494. We speak to founder Drew McKenzie Smith about its rich heritage and shaping the next chapter in a long story.   On the banks of the River Tay, not too far from the village of Lindores, there is an abbey, which has stood in the same place since the 12th century. Throughout the centuries, the “Church by the […]

We were the first UK wine merchant to have a wine authentication expert. Ours, Philip Moulin, is one of only two today. We speak to him about the background of wine fraud and how to spot a fake bottle.   Rewind to 2012. A young man named Rudy Kurniawan is arrested in California, accused of selling 100 million dollars-worth of fake wine over a 10-year period. His arrest […]

Marking the release of the second edition of Inside Burgundy, we caught up with Jasper Morris MW to uncover how much Burgundy has changed during his working life.  Since its first publication in 2010, Inside Burgundy has been considered a landmark book on the wines of Burgundy. For author Jasper Morris MW, it grew out of a passion which was sparked almost four decades ago, in the early years of his wine career.    “My interest in Burgundy goes back to the early 1980s, when I was an importer of French wines and […]