Something is stirring in the Lowlands. Back in early 2016, I interviewed Juliette Buchan of Gordon & MacPhail . When commenting about Gordon & MacPhail’s impressive range of whiskies and their contacts with distilleries throughout Scotland, she said the following about the Scotch whisky regions:
In terms of variety, we still work with about 60–70 % of distilleries, some closed, some still active; we have every region. We are very strong in Speyside because that’s where we’re based; Highland and Islay, a couple of them on Islay, although it’s majbe not the strongest point of Gordon & MacPhail. And lowland...