By Hebridean mountain biker (and British Mountain Bike Marathon Champion) Kerry MacPhee. Kerry is sponsored by Loch Duart I snuck off to Portugal on my own last weekend to do a Category 1 race and I’m delighted to report that the gamble paid off and I got a ‘podium finish’! Rather … Continued
Salmon Rearing Here’s some good news from out at sea. Since we began operations in 1999, our approach to salmon rearing has been based on low stocking densities in small pens linked by galvanised iron walkways to allow for close observation and ‘hands-on’ husbandry. These have worked well for … Continued
Quality Rewarded We really appreciate doing business with small, quality-orientated family businesses and Loch Duart taste, quality, provenance and integrity are essential elements for producing the food that we eat. The Fath family business is a fine example of this. Together, the family members run the Forellen Trout Farm and … Continued
Barbecuing Loch Duart Salmon There seems to be no end to the imagination of the developers of food programmes – and new ideas are appearing all the time, especially nowadays programmes which put members of the public into ‘sudden death’ competition. Latest in the line-up is ITV’s ‘Barbeque Champs’ and … Continued
The Smokehouse Reopens We are delighted to announce the re-opening of the Smokehouse in Lochcarnan, South Uist. The smokehouse shut down in April 2015 but Iain MacRury, former Production Manager at the smokehouse and local resident, has bought the business. Smoking of salmon will resume within the next week … Continued
Loch Duart Sponsors a Winner Loch Duart sponsors a winner and is proud to congratulate mountain biker, Kerry Macphee, on her brilliant victory in the British Mountain Bike. Kerry, who hails from South Uist in the Outer Hebrides where Loch Duart farms much of its award-winning salmon, completed the demanding … Continued
Loch Duart has gone outside the salmon farming sector to recruit an outstanding candidate from the food and agricultural industry. The new Managing Director, Alban Denton, has been a Managing Director and Senior Director in the poultry, vegetable and processed food industries in both England and Scotland. Loch Duart’s … Continued
So, after 15 years the company is being led by someone else. My role has passed on. Of course it feels significant to me and, rather like someone who has had a leg amputated, I keep wanting to scratch, by wanting to know everything. My wife and I went on … Continued
On 12th March, Stefan Enders, the renowned German photographer, visited Loch Duart. Stefan is also the Professor of Photography in the University of Mainz in Germany. He is the photo-artist of a project focusing on people living and working on the outer borders of Europe. Stefan photographed and interviewed about a … Continued
Scottish mountain biker, Kerry MacPhee, from South Uist in The Hebrides, is sponsored by Loch Duart Hi Everyone, I’m just back from training camp and racing in Spain. The camp went well and we got some really good quality work in based on three sessions a day consisting of … Continued
Last week, the Loch Duart Sales and Marketing team spent a day at the Scottish factory of EWOS – our feed supplier since 2006. Loch Duart has benefitted hugely from this long and happy association. It meets Loch Duart’s philosophy – business should be fun and rewarding, feed should be … Continued
