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Glen Moray
has made their normally distillery
exclusive single cask bottlings
available to whisky fans via a Dial A
Dram service.
One of the advantages of visiting a
whisky distillery is that many of them
offer visitors the chance to purchase
distillery exclusive bottling's during
their visit, these specially selected
bottling's are usually something quite
different from the normal core range and
more often than not quite outstanding
examples of what the distillery can
produce.
The Glen Moray
distillery in Speyside is no different,
they would usually offer their visitors
a chance to buy a Glen Moray Distillery
Edition bottling during their visit, a
distillery exclusive bottling which
wouldn't
normally be available to purchase from
whisky shops or online. The
team at Glen Moray appreciates that due
to the ongoing effects of lockdown some
of you may not be able to make the trip
to the distillery so they have made not
one, but three, Glen Moray single cask
bottling's available to whisky fans which
can be purchased by calling the
distillery if you are unable to visit.
The trio of Glen Moray single cask malt whiskies
are the oldest wine-finished whiskies
the distillery has ever released, each
one said to be bursting with the
flavours of full maturation in
hand-selected Chardonnay, Burgundy and
Chenin Blanc casks respectively.
To ensure whisky fans don’t miss out,
Glen Moray are also offering personal
phone consultations over peak visitor
season in July and August, where four
members of their team – all with a
serious passion for whisky – will guide
callers through the range, make
recommendations, answer questions and
take orders in person.
Brand Ambassador and Distillery Visitor
Centre Manager Iain Allan is leading the
effort alongside Hannah Levy (Assistant
Manager), Ieva Hancock (Visitor Centre
Assistant) and Laurie-May Macdonald
(Café Supervisor). Iain came up with the
idea as a contrast to all the virtual,
online whisky events that have been
taking place during lockdown, and as a
way to deliver a personal touch during
the buying process. He commented:
"Buying a bottle of Glen Moray from our
annual Distillery Edition is as much
about the experience of a visit to the
Distillery as it is about buying a
wonderful new whisky. For the many
people who would normally make the trip
and take away one of these special
bottles, we wanted to find a way to make
the range available but avoid making it
just a basic transaction over email or
the internet. Everyone working at the
Distillery enjoys nothing more than
talking about whisky with fellow
enthusiasts, answering questions and
sharing behind the scenes stories of how
Glen Moray is made. So if you can’t make
the visit in person this year, please
just pick up the phone and dial our
distillery team."
The three expressions in the 2020
Distillery Edition range have been fully
matured in ex-wine casks for between 16
and 17 years, after being laid down
between 2003 and 2004 in the
Distillery’s Warehouse 1 – home to Glen
Moray’s curious casks and maturation
experiments. All three expressions have
been bottled as they come from the cask,
at cask strength, non-chill filtered and
with naturally coloured.
If you want to know my thoughts on
the three Glen Moray 2020 Distillery
Edition bottling's follow the links below
and if you want to get hold of any of
the bottles the distillery has recently
partially re-opened to visitors, their
distillery shop and coffee shop are open
and their tasting flights are available,
their tours are not running and you
should note that you should call first
to pre-book a visit. Opening hours is currently only
winter opening hours Monday to Friday
9am till 5pm.
If you are unable to go to Glen Moray
and you want to get hold of one of the
new single cask bottles take advantage
of their Dial A Dram service and give
them a call
on +44 (01343) 550900
You will
also find the current Glen Moray core
range of whiskies available from
specialist online whisky retailers such
as
The Whisky Exchange,
The Whisky Shop and
Master of
Malt
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