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Greg Dillon

Founder, GreatDrams

Founder of an award-winning independent bottler, whisky writer and author of The GreatDrams of Scotland.

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Greg Dillon is the founder of GreatDrams.com, an award-winning independent bottler recognised for its cask-led releases and multiple international gold medals. A respected whisky writer and commentator, Greg has spent years covering Scotch, Irish and global whisky with a sharp focus on production, people and place.

He is the author of The GreatDrams of Scotland and a regular contributor to leading whisky publications. Known for blending commercial insight with deep liquid knowledge, his work centres on authenticity, long-term thinking and whisky as something to be shared, not merely collected.

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