Royal Lochnagar is a Highland distillery founded in 1845 just a stone's throw from Balmoral Castle, the summer residence of the Royal Family. It is one of the rare distilleries to bear the royal warrant, and only one of two permitted to use the prefix “Royal”.

A Royal Lochnagar 30 year old distilled in 1972 and bottled in 2003. The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) was founded in Edinburgh in 1983 by a group of friends with a particular passion for whisky. The club selects casks whose bottles are then only available to members. The name of the distillery is not mentioned on the label, but each distillery is given a number as the malt is bottled. The first cask selected by the SMWS, for example, was Glenfarclas, and it therefore uses the number 1. The second number refers to the number of bottlings from each distillery. The club was sold to Glenmorangie in 2004 and then to a group of investors in 2016.