Exports of Scotch whisky hit £4.3 billion in 2012, a record and more than a quarter of all UK food and drink exports last year. Will Stirling takes the high road to learn more about the water of life.
“Dearest of distillation! Last and best – How art thou lost!”. So Robert Burns parodied Milton when railing against the government for taxing whisky in his 1786 poem The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer. Scotland’s bard would be amused to see this week that changes to the European Union’s Free Trade Agreement removed trade barriers…
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