Scotland’s Larder

Gullane Glögg by Julia is a premix of orange juice infused with spices that can either be added to red wine to make mulled wine or topped up with sparkling wine to create a chilled festive cocktail. A 50cl bottle is priced at £7.55 for trade, with an RRP of £12.99. A 25cl Winter Fizz Blend costs £5.25 wholesale, with an RRP of £8.99.

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Aberdeen winery Two Raccoons turns overripe fruit which would have otherwise gone to waste into limited edition fruit wine. At £12 RRP for 75cl, each release is dependent on what is available, with past batches including mango, banana, pear and blackcurrant. The business is also plastic-free and carbon negative.

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Vandyke Bros Speciality Coffee is a small coffee roaster based on the shore of the Cromarty Firth. The brand’s signature espresso is Tin Roof – a medium roast blend of Brazillian Fazendo Sao Silvestre, Guatemalan Finca San Lorenzo, and Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Aricha. Wholesale prices range from £5.95-£17.25 for 250g-1kg bags. RRP £9.95-£28.

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This year, Stockan’s launched its Orkney Heritage Range of traditional oatcakes. Baked with Scottish grown ancient grains milled at Orkney’s water-powered Barony Mill, the two new oat cakes are flavoured with spelt wheat, herb and pepper; and bere barley, chilli and cheese.

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A plentiful pantry

From generations-old meat suppliers to kitchen sink start-ups, we’ve collated a selection of some of Scotland’s finest producers supplying speciality food and drink retailers across the UK and beyond

By infusing fresh garlic in natural sea salt, Annie’s Herb Kitchen’s Garlic Salt captures the flavour and strength to amp up meat cookery and liven marinades and brines. The salt is sold to trade for £3.45 per 100g, with an RRP of £4.95.

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Based on the Isle of Bute, smallbatch cocktail start-up, Braw Liquor Club, uses only Scottish produce to create premium premixes. The Old Fashioned with Sea Tangle features Speyside Whisky and sea herbs from the East Neuk of Fife, and the Bramble with Gooseberry blends Scottish gin with lemon, blackberries and the central ribe. RRP £12-£36.

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Tayport Distillery is a familyowned and operated distillery that sources fruit, grain and botanicals from local farms to make small batch handcrafted spirits. The company’s Malt Barley vodka won an Outstanding award in the IWSC 2020, the same year the Wild Rose Gin won gold. The ‘1992’ Raspberry liqueur won a Golden Fork and was named Great Taste’s Best Product in Scotland 2020.

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Seven decades after it was Seven founded, Isle of Lewis-based founded, Charles Macleod Ltd Charles credits the quality of its quality meat to the island pastures the animals pastures are lucky enough to graze on. Amongenough its most popular products is the most Stornoway Black Pudding, priced Stornoway at at £7 for 650g and £11 for, 1.3kg, of which there is now a gluten-free of version, too.

charlesmacleod.co.uk

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