The Maker Phil and Simon Thompson are well known to whisky nerds as the managers of the Dornoch Castle Hotel in the northern Highlands - about an hour up the road from Inverness. After a successful ‘kickstarter’ in 2017 they established Dornoch Distillery in a shed and set about becoming an independent bottler to keep the income coming while maturation was underway.   Their philosophy from the start has been to make traditional whisky using traditional techniques. The problem