The ubiquitous whisky pundit Ian Buxton  snidely infers that  our PC project is akin to  the  Shetland debacle.

There  is nothing Machiavellian about l awaiting  planning permission from Argyll & Bute Council.  Permission was delayed by  complications from  Historic Scotland, but we are assured it is imminent.  Port Charlotte is  after all a conservation site.

Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) assessments  of the water  courses have been ongoing.  No water  means no distillery. Only last week it was finally conformed after extensive research from the Glasgow City archives that  the mashing water indeed came from a lochan above Octomore Farm.  A mysterious  lochan that SEPA could not understand how it  hydrographically  existed.

Once planning is granted, and limitations that we must work within are known, only then can we progress to the next step.

Buxton has made a decent  living  out of  spending other people's money designing whisky visitor centres,  marketing  whisky for big drinks companies,  organizing  whisky conferences (£800 a ticket), and  hosting numerous whisky web sites. He even  has his own derelict  farm distillery where he lives in Perthshire which he tells all and sundry that he is going to reinstate  - a few more £800 conference tickets and he should be there.   As Ian  himself should surely be aware,  it is somewhat more complicated than merely patching up the roof and installing a couple of stills. 

The background work on our project is  slowly but steadily ongoing, at our own pace. We do after all, have another distillery to run...

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