Starting and successfully pursuing a new business is akin to an act of creation.

It does not start to take shape until an idea builds in the minds, hearts and activities of others. We must recognise the enormous enthusiasm and support received to date. At the risk of excluding many others, can we mention our thanks to:

Arthur Davies
despite the exhilarating/exhausting experience of helping start Welsh Whisky Co. immediately began to help do it all over again on Shetland

Stephen Johnson
of David Adamson & Co, QS. Lerwick who went out at all hours and in winter gales to find the perfect location

People of Shetland
who individually and collectively have overwhelmed us with hospitality and support in the finest traditions of their culture

Shetland Enterprise
who from the first helped and steered how to be effective on the ground

SIC/Development Trust
who also showed tremendous support and guidance from the first

Fiona Gilmore & Team
for constant faith, friendship and heavenly creativity

Robert Lomnitz
entrepreneur and financier extraordinaire for belief and support when it was most needed www.investory.com

Graeme Storey
for working all hours to find the perfect pictures
www.shetlandtourism.com

Jim Swan/Bill Rankin
for translating potential into plans for potent reality

Raymond Armstrong
www.bladnoch.co.uk for advice on land and showing how smaller distillers can help each other thrive

Clive Blackwood
who ever since "blueberries from Scotland" has supported and inspired entrepreneurial adventures and enabled them to happen.

To these and many more, thank you.