"I'm warehouse team leader for William Grant & Sons," says Eric. "I've been here 43 years - I started in 1962. My first job was when the stills were coal-fired and the coal used to arrive in wagons. I was 18 years old, and I had to empty out the coal wagons. I was at that four or five months, and then I went in the warehouse, and I've been there ever since."

Clearly, things were very different then.

"At that time of day there were no fork-lifts, just a table and 'skid', and we had to lift and push all the casks manually," Eric recalls.

"There was no easy way. The warehouses were mainly traditional dunnage warehouses [with earth floors]. It was 1963 when the first racked warehouses were built up here. They're stacked about six high up there, and with dunnage you could only get three high. Any more and the weight would crush the bottom casks. So it doubled the capacity in the same floor space, which was a big step."

When I started here I was getting about six pounds. I was a single boy, but the married boys got an extra penny! That was a good bit better than many jobs round about. I left a farm to come here and I was getting more pay. You had young boys in here on shifts who were going home with about £35 to £40, which was a lot of money then."

Ex Balvenie cooper Derek Spark also has interesting observations to make about pay.