Ayrshire's Lochlea Distillery Starts to Bloom

The Ayrshire farm where Scotland's legendary bard, Robert Burns,
once worked the fields has now become intertwined with another
Burns legacy: his love for whisky. The family-owned Lochlea Farm
opened its distillery three years ago next month, taking the
barley from those fields and turning it into whisky. Until now,
the distillery has kept a low profile, but it's starting to bloom
ahead of the first release of Lochlea single malt whisky later
this year. Veteran distillery manager Malcolm Rennie is
overseeing operations at Lochlea while David Ferguson handles the
commercial side of the business, and they'll both join us on this
week's WhiskyCast In-Depth. In the news, South Africa is
temporarily banning alcohol sales again with Covid-19 cases on
the rise, while global travel restrictions caused the first
year-over-year decline for Irish Whiskey sales worldwide in a
decade.