Food & Beverage - Gintelligence - with Fiona Holland
Gintelligence - with Fiona Holland
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iona Holland is a journalist and long-time gin lover, collecting and sampling unusual and uncommon
gins for more than 20 years. Recently, her job amassing the juniper-laced spirit has become significantly easier with the
explosion of craft distilleries in Scotland. It’s difficult to keep up with them all, but you can be assured she’ll try her best…
Keeping those bees busy - the north-east’s heather bounty Vesperis Pictish Gin and Vesperis Orange Old Tom Blackford Distillery Nr Inverurie, Aberdeenshire 40 and 37.5 per cent ABV
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et’s face it, Scotland does not have a shortage of heather and it is one of those plants which we often associate with autumnal purple hills, glowing in the vanishing sun.
An image straight from the canvas of an atmospheric Victorian painting – perhaps with a highland cow and some mist thrown in for good measure. In this sustainable world, where
