Linkwood Distillery was built in 1821 by Peter Brown, a factor of the Seafield estates in Moray and Banffshire and a man of much influence and forceful character.
Linkwood, along with most other malt whisky distilleries, closed during the Second World War because of restrictions on the supply of barley.
When the distillery reopened in 1945, another remarkable man, Roderick Mackenzie, became manager and his influence during the next 18 years ensured that Linkwood's authentic character was retained.
He believed the character of a malt whisky was a complex relationship - not just of the vessels in which it is made - but of everything in the immediate environment. Mackenzie even refused to allow new employees to remove cobwebs in the distillery.
In 1962 when it became essential to rebuild the distillery and install new stills, Mackenzie insisted that, according to custom, the new stills were exact replicas of those they replaced. He started up the new distillery just before he retired in 1963.
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