Glen Moray 12 Years Old Wine Mellowed The Glen Moray distillery produces a range of three malts all finished in wine casks. The younger unaged expression is mellowed in Chardonnay wine barrels, while both the 12 Year Old and the 16 Year Old are mellowed in Chenin Blanc white wine barrels.

		Glen Moray 12 Year Old — Tasting Notes. Colour :  Honey amber. Nose :  This is a fruity, creamy and complex whisky. The nitial impact is of very strong vanilla and fruit — an intricate mixture of bananas and citrus fruits. Then drier notes emerge with oak, baked bread and butter, followed by heather and honey tones. With water the vinous notes are detected interwoven with ice cream soda and lemonade, followed by the drier notes of Glen moray, and, in particular, a whiff of peat, a hint of leather and straw. Taste :  The texture is mouthwarming with delicate spices and menthol. Finish : The finish is medium leaving the dry tang of fruit skins  (peach and grape must).  Buy a sample of  the Glen Moray 12 Year Old in our six whisky Tasting Selection - an ideal gift! - click for USA  or NON-USA ordering

The Distillery

Glen Moray distillery is situated close to the River Lossie, on the western outskirts of Elgin. The site was formerly occupied by a brewery, and two of the surviving 18th century brewery buildings form part of the present central courtyard. Glen Moray stands below Gallowcrook Hill, where Elgin’s executions were carried out until the 17th century.

Glen Moray’s role as a distillery dates from the ‘whisky boom’ years of the last decade of the 19th century, when many new distilleries appeared on Speyside to slake the voracious thirst of the rapidly-expanding blending industry.

The first spirit flowed at Glen Moray in 1897, but as boom turned to bust, the distillery closed in 1910. Thirteen years later it was purchased by Macdonald & Muir, whose existing Glenmorangie distillery at Tain was also based on a former brewery. Glen Moray remains in the ownership of what is now Glenmorangie plc. 

Glen Moray underwent a major rebuild in 1958, when its capacity was increased from two to four stills. The old steam engine that powered the distillery before connection to the National Grid remains in situ.