Speyside, the home of Scot’s whisky, is a Garden of Eden for distillers

Bill Linnane spends a spell on Speyside and discovers how Scottish distillers have a lot to teach the booming Irish whiskey trade.

here is a large clock tower standing in the centre of the village of Dufftown in the Scottish highlands.

Over the years the building has been home to the council chambers, a prison, and a place of execution – a role that earned it the title of The Clock That Hanged MacPherson, after it hosted the dispatching of a local Robin Hood-style highwayman.