Drinking around the world: The Scots-Armenian wine alliance
The Scottish Borders are famous for Sir Walter Scott’s old home Abbotsford House, Jedburgh snails and Hawick Balls boiled sweets, as well as being the birthplace of the “voice of rugby” Bill Maclaren. Somehow, it has also become the hub of Armenian wine appreciation and the UK’s centre of south Caucasus viniculture.
“I knew Armenia made wine,” says Glasgow-born Ken Miller of Coldstream’s Borders Wines which launched in 2018. “After all Armenian brandy was a favourite of Winston Churchill, and Georgia’s wine making history is on the radar of most wine lovers.”