I’m a female whisky maker and my new Scots distillery is run entirely by women, it makes me so proud
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WOMEN in the world of whisky are as rare as a 50-year-old single malt. But one female founder is making a toast to the lassies this Burns Night as she prepares to open a distillery staffed by an all-female workforce in the stunning Angus Glens. Award-winning foodie Kim Cameron, who runs The Gin Bothy, gained international acclaim and recognition last year after her Original Gin was included in the 2024 Academy Awards Goodie Bags.
![[Woman in tartan skirt holding a bottle of whisky, sitting by a stone wall in front of a house in the Scottish countryside.]](https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/2024-academy-awards-goodie-bags-965833171.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Now one year on from her Oscars debut, the 48-year-old is set to take on her biggest challenge yet as she prepares to expand her operations from gin to whisky after unveiling plans for one of Scotland's most remote distilleries. The Bothy Distillery, due to begin operations in Spring, will be set in heart of Glen Prosen, embedded within the beauty of the region's historic whisky smuggling trails.
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Romanticized by the nation's Bard, the most notable tax collector of the 18th century, Kim is set to regenerate tourism and bring visitors down historic tracks where some of the finest "illicit" whisky was produced and traded. Traditionally a male-dominated industry, Kim currently employs 22 women in her team and plans to add another six positions once they start distilling later this year.
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She told the Scottish Sun Online: "Most of my team are wives or partners of people that work within rural space, so they've been able to fit within the seasonality of our business, and I'm proud that we are a full team of women. "I guess Robert Burns might approve of the culture and the tradition, and the storytelling and songs he might not have approved of the whisky.".
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