Whisky Stories Podcast

We met Howard a year ago up in Dornoch and when he contacted us to let us know he was coming back, we had to meet up for a couple of drams.
We managed to sneak a recording in on Saturday morning in Diggers before the Independent Whisky Festival in Leith. It was an early start, but we still managed some 'breakfast drams'.
Howard talked us through how he started out as a Whisky Importer in the U.S, the challenges of getting whisky into America, how he selects the brands he works with, and why he decided to look at Independent Distilleries and Bottlers rather than going main stream.
This is a fascinating insight and the drams were fantastic too.

The first Whisky Stories Spotlight event of 2026 was a special one!
Not only were we christening the new Diggers Leith with the first tasting in the pub, we were also getting to try a BRAND NEW Single Malt from Aberargie Distillery.
Morrison Scotch Whisky Distillers are Blenders, Bottlers and Distillers. And Good Pal of the Pod Tam Cuthbert came along to share some great drams with us and tell their story.

We enjoyed a Carn Mor Linkwood, Aberargie Inaugural Release, Old Perth and Mac-Talla.
Another cracking night with a room full of people enjoying the great drams.

This week it's a luxury podcast.
Tim Walker has been a keen listener of the pod since the early days, and we've been trying to get him on for a long time.
Thankfully, he finally agreed. And he brought drams with him!!
Tim is the National Account Manager in Scotland for the Luxury On Trade.
What that means is that he sells very expensive whisky to people like Ross who sells it on to other people.
And speaking of Ross, it was great to have him back on the pod for this one. He was also able to give his own thoughts and insight into the wonderful world of luxury whisky.

Enjoy!

This week we have good Pal of the Pod back on for some good old whisky chat.
Where is the whisky industry right now? We reacted to the big news coming out of Diageo and tried to work out if this is good news for the consumer.
The art of blending and can we do it in the cellar at Diggers? We put Greg's consultancy skills to the test.
And a real treat with some Dram Jam sent in for us to sample.

This week we were back in the Diggers Cellar joined by Shona Gillespie aka Shona Sips from Loch Lomond Group.

We chatted about Glenscotia, re-branding, Loch Lomond's 11 different spirit types and what's going on in the Scotch Whisky Industry right now.
Shona was kind enough to bring drams and samples along with her and we really enjoyed the new Glenscotia 12 release.