
A brewery was built in 1738 on the land of the farm Morangie,
which gave its name to the distillery. Water from the Tarlogie
burn was shared by the farm and the brewery, and was used, amongst
more, to turn the mill wheel, to wash and colour the wool and to
produce dye.
In 1843, William Matheson bought a licence to produce whisky and transformed
the brewery into a distillery. He bought two second hand very high gin stills.
In 1887, when the Glenmorangie Distillery Company Ltd was founded, great renovation
works took place, and they changed one of the most archaic distilleries
into the most modern for the time being. Glenmorangie was the first distillery
who warmed its stills with steam, using a serpentine within the still.
Even after this great alteration works, the original shape of the stills was
kept. The quality and the refinement of the whisky is partially due to the
very high stills, which impeach the heavy spirit to reach the "lyne arm".
The distillery was bought in 1918 by the Mac Donald & Muir society from
Leith for 40% and by Mr Durham, whisky broker for the remaining 60%.
Durham's parts were taken over by Mac Donald and Muir between 1925 and 1930.
The late twenties, with the recession and the prohibition in the United States,
were very hard times for distillers in Europe, and the distillery closed for
a while between 1931 and 1936. The second World War also obliged the distillery
to close, because barley was very difficult to find. The distillery did not
work at its previous level before 1948.
The production capacity was doubled en 1979 and again en 1993. The distillery
bought the land where the burn is situated to guarantee water supplying and
constant quality.
Glenmorangie experiments on a lot of finishing casks (claret, cognac, madeira,
port, malaga, tain L'hermitage, côtes de nuits villages, en so on....)
in order to enlarge the aromatic and taste range of its single malt.
About 70% of the production are sold as single malt, the 30 remaining percents
being used in blends like "Highland Queen" and "Bailie Nicol
Jarvie".
The MacDonald family, owners of the distillery decided to sell their shares
in 2004. The French group LVMH is the new owner. The sale is completed
in December 2004.
| Glenmorangie | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sample | |||
| O.B. | Ten Years Old | 16 2/3 | |
| Cellar 13 | 17 3/4 | ||
| Port Wood finish | 17 | ||
| Sherry Wood Finish | 16 2/3 | ||
| Aged 18 Years | 17 2/3 | ||
| Artisan Cask | |||
| Astar | |||
| Burgundy wood finish | 17 1/2 | ||
| Madeira Wood Finish | 17 2/3 | ||
| Traditional | 17 1/2 | ||
| Signet |
Glenmorangie 10 years |
|
Age |
10 years |
Alcohol percentage |
43% |
Bottler |
Official |
Glenmorangie
|
|
Age |
10 years |
Alcohol percentage |
43% |
Cask |
Bourbon |
Bottler |
Official |
Colour: Bright golden straw, sweet yellowish white dessert whine (Scheurebe), a little oily in the glass. (no information about colouring.
Nose: As sweet as the colour, mellow and very complex, there's coconuts in the beginning, also lots of white chocolate, noisette praliné, buttered shortbread and caramel with soft traces of baking spices (cinnamon).
Taste: Very firm and present at first, later there's a very remarkable and pleasant saltiness mingling with a subtle sweetness. Vanilla, honey, white chocolate again and in the back very smooth gingerbread notes - with water those are come a few steps more clearly in the foreground.
Finish: Medium till short, in the beginning it is a very beautiful finish, very nice bitter oakwood notes add very pleasureful insights, but! they leave quickly and fade into the feel of white sugar cubes and then ... nothing
Conc.: A very complex dram - what else you should expect from Glenmorangie? - but I guess a few more years in that famous cellar nearby the sea would do good for the a little unsatisfying finish.
Date: Nov/5/08
Price in Germany: 30 Euro/Litre, there are now reduced sellouts, so you should get your bottle soon!
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Glenmorangie
|
|
Age |
10 years + |
Alcohol percentage |
43% |
Cask |
Port |
Bottler |
Official |
The colour is pinkish bronze, and the fruity nose is winy.
The palate is first mellow and winy, and then lets appear some more spicy hints,
typical for a Glenmorangie.
The oily finish develops on the spices.
Glenmorangie
|
|
Age |
10 years + |
Alcohol percentage |
43% |
Cask |
Sherry |
Bottler |
Official |
Colour is old gold. The nose is marked by floral hints and traces
of sherry.
The palate confirms the nose, with this elegance continuing in ripe fruits
and malted barley
Glenmorangie
|
|
Age |
10 years + |
Alcohol percentage |
43% |
Cask |
Madeira |
Bottler |
Official |
The colour is gold with amber glints. The dry nose, fruity and
woody is atypical.
The mouth is dry (madeira influence) and the finish develops some mellow fragrances
(woody, fruity, vanilla).
Glenmorangie
|
|
Age |
10 years + |
Alcohol percentage |
43% |
Cask |
Burgundy Wine |
Bottler |
Official |
Glenmorangie 18 years |
|
Age |
18 years |
Alcohol percentage |
43% |
Cask |
new |
Bottler |
Official |
The particularity of this malt is it's finishing for 6 months in new barrels (this does not happen often in Scotland).
Glenmorangie
|
|
Age |
10 years |
Alcohol percentage |
57,2% |
Particularity |
Cask Strength |
Bottler |
Official |
Colour: Brite straw, very beautiful tears in the glass, nice and oily.
Nose: Freshly mowed lawn, a very pleasant easy fruitiness, pears, pome (Obstler), sweet clover, a very nice breeze out of a deciduous forest.
Taste: An overwhelming strong enter of the 57,2%, very young indeed and surprising raw and rude (specially if you know the regular Glenmorangies). Strong wood notes, resin, what kind of oak this cask was made of? (They say American Mountain oak, this must have been a very spicy young tree) But what I miss are those pleasant easy fruit notes from the nose. Later there is a very weakl whiff of softer notes like caramel or white sugar. With water there is surprisingly few changed the whisky is still kicking hardly, the sweeter notes unsuccessfully try to balance the hard wooden accents.
Finish: A beautiful crescendo developing from the softer notes to dry wooden notes.
Conc.:. In my book this all is a little one dimensional, square and edgy, but despite and interesting, daring and very expressive dram.
Date: 30. June 2009
Price in Germany: ca 65,00 Euro
Glenmorangie
|
|
Age |
No age statement |
Alcohol percentage |
46% |
Cask |
first fill hogshead |
Most of the distilleries of that area are settled on the wild and windy seaside between Narin and John 'O Groats, on the Eastern coast.
Click on the map for a list of the distilleries of the area, on the title for further information about the Northern Highlands area, and if you want to make an "alphabetical journey" through the area, please click on one of the pagode roofs, according to the direction you want to follow
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