The distillery is owned by the Chivas Brothers. It is guarded by a very unique secuity system: over a 100 noisy geese which look after all the warehouses that are on the site protecting the barrels of whisky. The geese can be seen from the road towards Dumbarton and also on the nearby train line between Bowling and Dumbartand East.

Speyside is an area around the River Spey in Moray and Badenoch and Strathspey, in northeastern Scotland. The term Strathspey usually refers to the upper part of the strath from the source of the Spey down to the capital, Grantown-on-Spey, whereas the anglicised form, Speyside, refers to the area from Grantown-on-Spey to the mouth of the river at Spey Bay. Recently there has been some controversy over attempts to anglicise the name into Spey Valley. The tourist area from the south starts at Dalwhinnie and continues North along the A9 towards Newtonmore, Kingussie, Aviemore and on towards Grantown-on-Spey. Speyside has the greatest number of distilleries of any of the whisky-producing areas of Scotland. Speyside whiskies are usually lighter and sweeter than other Scotch single malts. As they grow older, they develop body.