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Peter Ranscombe gets to grips with the new ways in which the whisky industry is using non-fungible tokens to sell bottles and build brands.

Peter Ranscombe straps on his VR goggles to explore how businesses can take their first tentative forays into a developing online world.

Can renewable energy replace oil and gas as the driving force for north-east mergers and acquisitions? Peter Ranscombe spoke to some experts.

Peter Ranscombe finds out why mergers and acquisitions represent a game of two halves for the Scotch whisky market.

Peter Ranscombe asks 10 leading figures from the hospitality industry about the challenges and opportunities in the year ahead.

The Highlands and Islands are experiencing their own mini space race in a £4bn Scottish market, says Peter Ranscombe.

Peter Ranscombe looks at eight examples of transport, tourism and communications infrastructure that are under threat from climate change.

Peter Ranscombe examines what progress has been made to protect the north’s infrastructure from climate change.

David Longfield, Decanter’s production editor and was formerly deputy editor of spirits & wine trade title Drinks International , replies: Distillation is carried out in stages, which depend upon the relative boiling points of various volatile compounds in the liquid being distilled. The most volatile will boil off at a lower temperature as the still is heated up, and these are known as the heads (or foreshots) – these are undesirable, as they either have unpleasant flavours or are dangero...