Jumping from Inverness to the Caribbean, the whisky entrepreneur behind one of the city’s top whisky bars has embarked on an ambitious project by opening the first specialist Scotch whisky bar in the Cayman Islands. opened the doors to his new venture Cask at Camana Bay on Grand Cayman on Friday in a bid to address the growing interest for Scotch on the islands. This comes after the growing success of the Malt Room, , and the opening of their shop Inverness Whisky last year.
A project which was two years in the making, this has been the “biggest challenge” in the Inverness entrepreneur’s career - one which was favoured by a fortunate encounter. “We always thought about opening another bar,” Mr Macpherson explained. “We’ve had the Malt Room for about seven years now, and the next thing on the list for us was to open Inverness Whisky, so that was our next step.
“A lot of people suggested Glasgow or Edinburgh, or somewhere on the West Coast. We thought about it, but we never really got too far with it.“ Then, one day, he received a call from a friend working at Culloden House Hotel, who passed the phone to a customer of the bar who was really interested in learning more about Scotch whisky.
The man on the phone was Rob Eyers, a Cayman Islands resident originally from Inverness who was taking his two sons, who were studying in England at the time, to visit and experience the Highlands. Mr Macpherson said: “I had never met him before, but we started talking a.