Glenmorangie Single Malt Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Glenmorangie is a distiller of single malt Scotch whiskey, located in Coy, Tain, Ross-Shire Scotland. It is the best-selling single malt in the Scottish market.Glenmorangie is distilled in the tallest pot stills in Scotland, at over 5.1 m (16 feet 10 inches) in height. The distillery claims this produces the purest spirit possible.
The whiskey comes in 10, 12, and 18-year varieties, and is aged in American ex-bourbon casks. Glenmorangie also release a range of malts that, after ageing in bourbon casks, are transfered to casks that have been used previously to mature a sort of wine. This process is known as finishing, and Glenmorangie offers whisky finished in sherry, port wine, madeira, and burgundy casks.
Another innovation of Glenmorangie's is their bottling of whisky that has matured in casks in the distillery's cellar, number 13, that lies closest to the sea. It is thought that this different environment gives the whisky a character distinct from the standard Glenmorangie.
For most of its existence, Glenmorangie refused to sell whisky for use in blends, fearing that casks would find their way to independant bottlers. Recently, the distillery has sold casks to blenders with a very small amount of Glen Moray Single Malt added, so that the whisky is technically a vatted malt, and can not legally be bottled and sold as a single. Note that Glen Moray distillery is owned by the same parent company, Glenmorangie plc.
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