5 results for tag: Cairn O’Mohr


From Market Stalls to Spirit Stills: Celebrating Homecoming Scotland

We are often asked so how do you choose which Scottish produce to showcase on your food and drink walking tours?  Well, it generally depends on the weather and who has arrived at Scotland's largest Farmers' Market. With an incredible footfall of between 6-10,000 people per week, musicians plucking or drumming out tunes aplenty and of course the most incredible location with Edinburgh Castle as the backdrop, Edinburgh Farmers' Market is most definitely our favourite place to start.  Today we tried the 2 new oils from cold pressed rapeseed oil experts Summer Harvest. The white truffle and the smoked ones are well worth seeking out. (We'll ...

Modern Food Producers: Today’s Scottish Enlightenment?

The Scots: still as proud, passionate and inventive as ever then. The proof was in the pudding, or actually on the stand.  With so many new products and flavours experienced at this years Scotland’s Speciality Food Fair, I am blown away yet again by the adventurous, yet seemingly palate perfect flavour accomplishments that were showcased. I can’t wait to share these latest taste innovations with you when you join us on one of our eating and drinking gourmet journeys through Scotland or at one of our artisan tasting events. Take for example a fudge combination from Joyce Brady of the Wee Fudge Company that marries Jasmine Petal Garam Masala ...

Christmas Pudding: The tradition of Stir Up Sunday (And an early Day 1 of our 12 days of Christmas!)

So today is ‘Stir Up Sunday’, the day you should make your Christmas Pudding. We have been thinking about Christmas for weeks already, due to the release of our 2013 Natural Scotland Hamper range (have a look if you haven’t seen the range), and it feels great and wholly acceptable to really start talking about the festive.With various Christmas themed Scottish artisan food tasting events in the diary and no doubt a few too many bottles of Cairn O’Mohr Scottish fruit wine tested before the events have even started (for quality purposes naturally) we do love Christmas.The question I am regularly asked is what is 'Stir Up Sunday?'. Tradition ...

Asparagus as fresh as a daisy

There is always something magical about taking a group of people who appreciate the finer things in life on one of our food and drink day tours, but when you are visiting one of the most highly regarded asparagus farms in the country and visiting what we now know to be the Scotland’s Restaurant of the Year, the bar is raised to an altogether different level.As with all our food and drink based experiences we want you to gain a real flavour of Scotland’s top class products and the people who produce with both passion and pride.  There was no better place to start last Saturday’s gourmet journey than with Sandy and Heather Pattullo who have been ...

Tasting Perthshire – Foodie Heaven

Greetings Fellow Foodies! The Late Summer Outing: Scintillating Success Our journey to Perth was fascinating: delicate oils, delicious speciality smoked salmon & trout, lunch from a Master Chef, and to complete a perfect day; some distinctive Scottish fruit wines. Theme for the day: 'local as can be'. This is what I love about Scotland, whether on the banks of River Tay or on the farms of Madderty – locally grown, artisan production and gastronomic delights lie all around us (and that's what our tours take you out and find). On this occasion, out first stop was the 50-year old Ferneyfold Farm, where they specialise in making the most exquisite ...