3 results for tag: Scotch Whisky


What to do when you have the itchy feet travel bug during lock-down

Anyone else like me with the itchy feet urge to travel so bad that it's beginning to hurt already? Here's what to do. We are on Day 13 of Corona Virus lock-down here in Scotland. And as they say us humans always want that which we cannot have! I can't lie. As a travel planner and tour leader I am desperate to be doing what I do at this time of year. It's the start of what up to now has generally been considered Scotland's main tourism season. I yearn to be taking first time and repeat international visitors around the country helping them to uncover Scotland's true collage of gastronomic flavours, perhaps cooked themselves in one of our culinary ...

The Year of Food and Drink…it’s not over yet!

It's two weeks until Scotland’s ‘Year of Food & Drink' ends, but fear not as we provide our 366 day leap year solution on how to continue the celebrations in 2016.   So yes, okay, it will involve a short flight or ferry ride over to Northern Ireland, but I think you’ll find it’ll be well worth the journey and here’s why. Just a few weeks ago I had the pleasure of travelling to Northern Ireland and sharing the stage to give an insight on Scotland’s hugely successful ‘Year of Food and Drink 2015’. Sharing that stage was renowned restauranteur and BBC ‘Great British Menu’ judge Oliver Peyton; Dr Morgaine Gaye, a Food ...

Christmas Pudding: The tradition of Stir Up Sunday (And an early Day 1 of our 12 days of Christmas!)

So today is ‘Stir Up Sunday’, the day you should make your Christmas Pudding. We have been thinking about Christmas for weeks already, due to the release of our 2013 Natural Scotland Hamper range (have a look if you haven’t seen the range), and it feels great and wholly acceptable to really start talking about the festive.With various Christmas themed Scottish artisan food tasting events in the diary and no doubt a few too many bottles of Cairn O’Mohr Scottish fruit wine tested before the events have even started (for quality purposes naturally) we do love Christmas.The question I am regularly asked is what is 'Stir Up Sunday?'. Tradition ...