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Hunter Laing and Ardnahoe Brand Ambassador - Paul Main
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Paul didn't start his career in whisky as a Brand Ambassador until he'd retired from his first career in the police.
Despite only working in whisky for the last 3 years, he's been a whisky geek since the early 90's and travelled around the countries visiting distilleries = long before Ross was just a twinkle in his fathers eye.
Starting out as delivering small private tastings for friends and charity occasions, Paul went from attending Hunter Laing tasting events to delivering and hosting them.
From there, he is now representing Hunter Laing and their exciting new distillery Ardnahoe at trade events and whisky shows all over Europe.
Paul has been part of the Ardnahoe story from the very beginning and was kind enough to bring in some great drams for us to enjoy during and after this really fun recording.
Paul reached out as a keen listener to the podcast on Instagram and was kind enough to travel through from Glasgow to do this recording.
It was great to hear about his story and the work that he's doing.
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