Sometimes you have to feel sorry for Argyll and Bute Council. It seems to have attracted a jinx on pier / slipway contracts. For Argyll has reported several times on the foreseeable and avoidable problems at the new Port Askaig Harbour…
The U-turn (Wednesday 26th November): The whisky industry has rightly flexed its considerable muscle. Suddenly this was all an awful mistake, The Chancellor (and HMV) had ‘not intended’ to do anything their than keep the price of whisky at the same…
The Scottish Government has announced a grant of £60,000 to support a major conference during 2009 Highland year of Homecoming. The Director of the initiative, Fiona Hampton, was also Director of Highland 2007, whose recently published evaluation report has just…
Well now you do. The enterprising slate island of Easdale, under the Eilean Eisdeal Trust, is introducing its own 8-year old highland malt whisky. Described as having ‘a pronounced, peaty flavour with a smooth, pleasant finish’ it’s a smart fundraiser…
In yet another award for one of Argyll’s legendary Islay malt whisky distilleries, Bruichladdich had been awarded the Enterprise 250 Award for Innovation and Design. According to the 2008 Scottish Whisky Industry Review, Bruichladdich is the fastest growing single malt distillery in the…
Early this morning (Friday 14th November) a grain silo collapsed at Islay’s port Ellen Maltings, shedding hundreds of tonnes of barley which fell around it. No-one was injured. As a precautionary measure, nearby homes were temporarily evacuated. With work at…
The Whisky Bible 2009 has pronounced Islay’s Ardbeg distillery’s single malt, Ardbeg Uigeadail, World Whisky of the Year. The distillery was given the same award last year, 2008, for its Ardbeg Ten Years Old. This cements its position at the…
The Ardbeg Distillery on Islay is due to share in a £45 million investment programme over two years focused on building the brands of Ardbeg and its stablemate, Glenmorangie whose distillery is on the Dornoch Firth in Inverness.
Ardbeg’s refurbished Visior…
Lloyds TSB have just announced that nine of the top eleven jobs which will operate if the proposed merger takes place will go to managers from within its own organisation with only two going to former HBOS people.
Eric Daniels, CEO…
Bruichladdich Distillery on Argyll’s Isle of Islay is celebrating its resurgence under the team who bought out the shut-down plant back in 2001 with the issue of the ‘The Resurrection Dram 23.10.01′. It is just that - the first dram…
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