Following on from yesterday’s blog, here are a few more Scottish food and drink festivals which are popping up on the horizon.

After a successful launch last year, Springfest is back at Loch Lomond Shores on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 April. It’s a food festival so you know the score: master classes, pop-ups, local producers and demos.

Wild cocktails

The 5pm Dining blog was particularly tickled by an event which is being run by Galloway Wild Foods. Apparently, expert forager Mark Williams will be demonstrating how to make cocktails out of everyday plants. Bittersweet vermouths, floral champagnes, herbal meads and delicious wild cocktails are on the menu.

Look out for his Filthy Dirty Martini and Wild Whisky Sour.

Sticking with the hooch but moving to the other side of the country, WoodWinters are organising The Australian Wine Roadshow at Edinburgh’s Summerhall on Friday 15 April.

Every year, journalist and wine writer Matthew Jukes tastes almost all the wines in Australia. From these, he selects the top hundred and then sets off round the UK showing them to everyone.

For the tasting at Summerhall, Matthew has selected 43 of his 100 best including Tasmanian sparklers, delicate Chardonnays, a full panoply of sensational reds, a rare liqueur muscat and even a Fiano.

Futurist cuisine

Last but certainly not least is GastroFest, the food and drink strand of Edinburgh International Science Festival which runs 26 March to 10 April.

Highlighting the areas where science and food meet, GastroFest is always chocka with thought-provoking events, talks and tastes.

We liked the sound of The Futurist Meal, an experimental meal inspired by Marinetti’s 1930 Manifesto of Futurist Cuisine.

Guests are advised that they can ‘expect live musical performances by alternative music trio SiNK, confrontational canapés and disturbing dishes as we go beyond the beyond at this unique event’.

I have no idea what a confrontational canapé is but I’m up for a culinary punch-up.