Longmorn Distillery

The Longmorn distillery was founded in 1893 by John Duff & Company and started production a year later. John Duff bought out his partners in 1897 and built a second distillery called ‘Longmorn Number 2’ (now known as BenRiach). He went bankrupt not long after and James R. Grant, owner of the Glen Grant distillery, acquired the shares. The Longmorn distillery is currently in the ownership of Chivas Brothers (Pernod Ricard). The distillery is built on the site of a medieval chapel in the small village of Longmorn. The origin of the town’s (and the distillery’s) name is disputed. It either means ‘Holy Well’ or ‘The Place of the Holy Man’ in Gaelic. Another theory is that the name is an anglicization of Lann Marnoch, a church built in the 7th century in honor of the missionary Maernanaog, who is said to have brought Christianity to the area.