A whisky maker on Vancouver Island in Canada is embroiled in a row with the Scottish Whisky Association over his use of 'Scottish sounding' words.
Graeme Macaloney, who founded Macaloney's Caledonian Distillery, was born in Scotland but lives in Canada says his German importer Kirsch has been threatened with a lawsuit by the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) to prevent the firm from bringing Macaloney's single malt into Germany.
It comes just months after a lawsuit was filed against him by the SWA in a bid to prevent Macaloney from using his name and other Scottish-sounding names in the branding of his Canadian whisky – and he claims he was told the words 'glen' and 'island' are included.
