Glen Moray 2008
Cask Type: 1st fill ex-Bourbon Barrel
Bottled: 2023
Age: 14
Region: Speyside
No. of bottles: 232
ABV: 53.5%
Release: Summer Release 2023
Rob Whitehead
“This distillery produces whiskies that might act as an epitome of the entire, beautiful Speyside region, especially when the sun is shining and the world seems bright! This ex-bourbon barrel matured example is sweetly nutty and juicily awash with chewy granola goodness!”
Tasting Notes
The nose immediately offers notes of banana milkshake, praline ice cream, and marzipan with cherry and apricot emerging with time. Dried banana and sweet wheat both show on the palate with waves of vanilla pods, sweet oak and cereals. The finish is long giving cocoa, rice pudding and fruit salad.
Distillery
Glen Moray Distillery, formerly a brewery, was converted in 1897. Situated to the west of Elgin, it spent most of its early years in silence, until it was bought by new owners in the 1920s and expanded in 1958.
Ronnie says: “I love this delightful distillery. Unlike most it finds itself surrounded by buildings and town houses which makes it look part of the town. But don’t be fooled: such thoughts bely its experimental past where arguably the art of ‘finishes’ was truly developed. Now an integral part of Elgin and its history - it sits unassumingly in the very Heart of Speyside.”