KING GEORGE AS A DISTILLER.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1071, 15 September 1910, Page 23

KING GEORGE AS A DISTILLER.

King George is the master of many industries, but it is not generally known that he is the owner of a distillery where he distils some of the finest whisky that ever drew praise from a connoisseur. This curious possession of the Crown is situated on the Balmoral estate, near Abergeldie Castle, and is known as Lochnagar. The whisky manufactured is, as may be imagined, of the highest possible quality, and it finds its way to all the Royal tables via the cellars of Buckingham Palace, where it arrives in bulk and where it is

matured in large maturing vats, so that it does not really make its "professional” debut until it is from 15 to 20 years’ old. The distillery was at first an ordinary commercial undertaking, doing a fair amount of trade, and producing a whisky of sound repute; but, when the property passed into the possession of the Crown, in the reign of Queen Victoria, the products of the distillery were reserved exclusively for the use of the Royal family and their respective households.—M.A.P.