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The 100 Club

On April 14, 1963 the young Charles Grant Gordon, joint MD of William Grant & Sons, broke ground…

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The Tangled Web

Oh what a tangled web we weave… Is this the beginning of the end of the chancers, fraudsters…

A west coast mind: the rise of Feddie

  Facing you as you leave Bergen airport is a huge sign carrying the city’s name, complete with…

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Barbados Rum Experience: Part 2

By Day 3 I was getting used to waking at dawn to the sounds of racehorses being exercised…

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Barbados Rum Experience: Part 1

The land falls away as we peer through thick forest to the Atlantic coastline. A few houses on…

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A Saucy Tale

Every town has its own aroma, a fragrance that stays with you, a little olfactory thread which links…

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A Field(en) in England (or dancing at Lughnasa)

There was an absence of fire which I must confess saddened me. What’s a pagan celebration without a…

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Micil and the return of Galway whiskey

It’s a season of west coasting. One week on the pink granite coast, and now taking a drive…

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Brittany rises

Brittany. Celtic redoubt, dolmens and menhirs, a land of buckwheat galettes and medieval towns, cobbles and harps, bagpipes…

Loch Lomond: Alexandrian alchemy at work

Michael Henry opens the door and we enter a stillhouse unlike any other. There’s swan-necked pots in the…