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This Travelling Life: Ian McCulloch

Ian McCulloch and James Shelbourne put their years of marketing and commercial experience together to found Silent Pool Distillers in 2015. Since then, they have been pushing hard to build the brand’s gobal footprint and its sustainability credentials.

What have been some of the most memorable and interesting countries and places that your work has taken you?

Japan was probably the most exotic. We have a great distributor there; they gave us an amazing tour including Kyoto, which we got to by Bullet

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