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James and John Chivas

Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, founded 1810

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About MeBrothers James and John Chivas were two of fourteen children brought up on a remote farm in Ellon, Aberdeenshire. In 1836, at the age of 26, James, and his younger brother John, aged 22, set out on foot for Aberdeen to make their fortune. There, they eventually established a business importing luxury food, drink and produce from across the world to Aberdeen.

Within two decades of arriving in the city, James and John had founded The Chivas Brothers Company. Offering an eclectic mix of quality produce, their store dominated the North-East and became a prime destination for international visitors as well as royalty.
Transferring skills which he had learned from making teas, James began blending whisky in the shop’s cellar. The brothers’ reputation for producing fine quality, blended whisky quickly grew, and orders piled in from all over the British Empire. Half a century later Chivas Regal entered the history books as the world’s first luxury whisky.

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