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Our Spirits Buyer Rob Whitehead looks to the future of Glenmorangie – and raises a dram of 13-year-old Cognac Cask Finish to its innovation. There are few distilleries in Scotland so well-recognised as Glenmorangie. From their unusually tall stills, via the famous “16 men of Tain” who craft every drop that leaves the distillery, to […]

It looks like 2021 will be a fantastic year for sloe berries; the blackthorn bushes are laden. Here, forager Julius Robert shares his favourite recipe for sloe gin. Sloe gin: the famous elixir. A deep maroon, viscous and warming potion. A friend of the flask and something we used to sneak sips of from the […]

Bill Lark – the man behind our Own Selection Tasmanian whisky – founded Lark Distillery in 1992, making him one of the early pioneers of Australian whisky-making. We speak to him about the early days and the supportive network of the international whisky community.   In 1989, in the highlands of Tasmania, Bill Lark was fishing trout with his father-in-law. […]