Taste of Scotland

And Tonight’s Dram is Aberlour

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Being a snooty sort of guy, and living in the proper Highlands, I’ve tended to look down on the Speyside malt whiskies.Glenmorangie is closest to where we live, Clynleish is just up the road, and Dalmore not 20 miles away. In the circumstances who would want to drink something from Speyside? Well it seems I’m [...]

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Tonights Dram is Glen Moray

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Scottish Malt Whisky is my choice of cocktail, naturally enough. Up here it’s impolite to drink anything else. Glen Moray wouldn’t rank on my favourite malt whisky list, until it comes to price that is but tonight it’s my choice. To be fair this is a very quaffable malt whisky, with a softer, more rounded [...]

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And Tonight’s Dram is Old Pulteney

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Image via Wikipedia Old Pulteney is a Highland single malt whisky, and its also my choice for tonight’s dram. Every evening before dinner I’ll enjoy a glass on single malt whisky during my cocktail hour. That’s 7.00 till 8.00 in this part of the world. To my mind there’s no such thing as a poor [...]

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Views of Brora

Brora

Brora is pretty far north, and in Highlands terms also quite big.  At one time most of the coal for this part of the country came into  what was a busy harbour. There were fishing boats too, and some industry. To the south of the town was Hunters factory.  They made the highest quality tweeds [...]

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Chocolates from Inverness – Scottish Style

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Chocolates filled with whisky doesn’t sound to me like gourmet treats. I prefer my whisky unsullied by anything other a drop of spring water. But the same obviously isn’t true for everybody. Who would have thought chocolates would be a major feature of the Taste of Scotland as described in the this advertisement originally published [...]

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Dornoch hotel on foodies’ radar – Press & Journal

Dornoch

Fine dining and food loving visitors now have even more reason to visit Dornoch as announced in this article by the Press and Journal. It wasn’t always the case. Decent food has traditionally been hard to come by in Dornoch, and in the rest of Scotland, as well. But the last couple of years has [...]

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Skye delight – Press & Journal

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Skye delight David James found that a December visit to Kinloch Lodge on Skye, home of the redoubtable Lady Claire Macdonald and her family, was made glorious summer by a winter discount Published: 19/12/2009 IT HAD been dark for two hours when we arrived at Kinloch Lodge on Skye for a three-night stay after a [...]

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Top of the table – Press & Journal

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Top of the table Our review of the P&J’s top-scoring restaurants for 2009 reveals a mouthwatering array of establishments the length and breadth of Scotland that are providing high standards of service and excellent cuisine. Eating out doesn’t get much better than this Published: 19/12/2009 COUNTRY GEM Glenkindie Arms Hotel, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire: “It speaks volumes [...]

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Single Malt Whisky Made in the Highlands

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Living in the Highlands without a taste for single malt whisky should be illegal. The quality and choice in the local brews soon converted me from English Gin and Finnish Vodka. Today I won’t drink even a blended scotch- I cant stand the taste. Here’s a link to what’s probably the site with the most [...]

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And Tonight the Dram is Jura

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Sorry, but I just can’t help being cheap.  Maybe I’ve lived in Scotland too long. But this is a recession, right. The local store runs a special every month on single malts.  I’m happy to report the special today is Jura. This isn’t an Islay malt as we might expect from an island off the [...]

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