CLYNELISH
When in the early 19th century, the Marquis of Stafford married into the Sutherland family, he came the first Duke of Sutherland and set about creating a distillery at Brora on the north-east coast of Scotland.
HIGHLAND PARK
What does a church officer on a northern isle do in the evenings? If it is 1826, the isle in question is Orkney and the officer is Magnus Eunson, you double as an illicit distiller and whisky smuggler.
THE MACALLAN
Few businesses, let alone whisky producers, effect such a successful marriage of ancient and modern, of adherence to tradition and embracing of the innovative.