对苏格兰最著名出口产品的需求急剧下降，整个行业面临裁员和关闭的风险。
位于柯卡尔迪郊外的克鲁尼（Cluny）实际上是一个专门用于储存威士忌的小镇。
Demand for Scotland’s most famous export has slumped, with industry facing job cuts and closures Obscured by the Scottish countryside on the outskirts of Kirkcaldy, Cluny bond is, in effect, a small town built to store whisky.
当这座前露天煤矿改造而成的最新仓库群建成时，帝亚吉欧（Diageo）占地220公顷（544英亩）的储存设施将能够容纳近300万桶威士忌。这家跨国酒业公司迫切需要这样的存储空间。
By the time the latest set of warehouses are finished on the former opencast coal mine, Diageo’s 220-hectare (544-acre) maturation campus will be able to store almost 3m casks of Scotch. The drinks multinational needs the space.
在新冠疫情推动下的15年繁荣期之后，全球对苏格兰威士忌的需求骤降，苏格兰各地的酿酒厂纷纷暂停生产，以避免进一步加剧供应过剩的问题，这种现象被称为‘威士忌库存过剩’。”}{
After a 15-year boom turbocharged by the Covid-19 pandemic, demand for Scotch whisky has slumped around the world. Distilleries have paused production across Scotland to avoid adding to the glut of supply, known as a “whisky loch” – the equivalent of a “wine lake”.