Aberfeldy Whiskey

John Dewar & Sons was typical of many of the blending firms which were founded in the 19th century.
Dewar himself, though born in humble surroundings in a croft at Shenvail, became a wine merchant in Perth and by the middle of the century had started to blend whisky. It was however his sons, John Jr. and Thomas (always known as Tommy), who made the family firm a globally recognized name.
In the 1890s, they decided to go into whisky production and built a distillery at Aberfeldy, only two mil