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Like most people, I first came to know Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser on Outlander —the Scottish Highlander who made me fall a little bit in love with Scotland (and, fine , a little bit with him). Since then, he’s only deepened his connection to his homeland by exploring his Scottish heritage in the show Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham and, of course, by producing his award-winning Sassenach whisky. At this point, Sam is practically synonymous with Scotland.

When I spoke with him about his new book The Cocktail Diaries , he admitted that Outlander actually deepened that connection. “My journey as a spirit producer really started out of coming back

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