“Never put ice in your scotch. I shiver at the thought. Drinking a rare scotch with anything but a dash of water is like being out in freezing cold without your clothes on,” says Whyte and Mackay’s master blender Richard Paterson, in all seriousness. Paterson should know. After all he is the third generation master blender in his family and the man nicknamed ‘the nose’ even has his nose insured!

Whyte and Mackay’s Richard Paterson is a third -generation master blender in his family and is nicknamed ‘the nose’ as his nose is insured for £1.5 mn