Dhavall Gandhi is master blender and director of whisky & spirit operations for The Lakes Distillery, where he crafts the Lake District's only single malt whisky.

Before joining The Lakes Distillery in 2016, Gandhi held various technical roles at Heineken and worked at the Edrington Group as a whisky maker for The Macallan.

The focus of his career has been maturation and blending, and developing a depth of understanding of flavour development in ex-sherry wood.