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Glen Moray
impresses scooping 2 of the 5 awards at
the Spirit of Speyside whisky awards,
these are rather unique awards, as the
winners are chosen by members of the
public who attend tasting sessions
during the festival.
The
Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival
Whisky Awards is an awards like no
other. The judging process takes place
in two stages. The first round is a
blind nosing and tasting of Speyside's
finest malts by selected judges.
The next stage sees two whiskies from
each of the four categories shortlisted
to go forward for the Roving Whisky
Awards Judging and Tasting, when
visitors and locals can cast their vote
during the Speyside Festival. The Spirit
of Speyside Whisky Festival Whisky
Awards are the only whisky awards where
the real judges of whisky - the whisky
drinkers - have the final vote and for
that reason the whiskies which pick up a
Speyside Whisky Festival Whisky Award
are always worth trying yourself if you
haven't already.
At the end of this year’s Spirit of
Speyside Festival Glen Moray was
thrilled to be awarded two out of the
five whisky awards, with their Glen
Moray Chardonnay Cask Finish winning the
No Age category beating The Glenlivet
Nàdurra Peated Cask Finish into second
place.
 In the 13-20 year category the superb
Glen
Moray Elgin Heritage 18 year old
took the honours with Aberlour 18 year
old in second place.
Graham Coull, Glen Moray’s Master
Distiller was joined at the award
ceremony by Ed Dodson and said "it was
wonderful to share the success with my
predecessor Ed Dodson, the 4th Master
Distiller at Glen Moray. We are both
delighted to see our whiskies gain
worldwide recognition."
Glen Moray’s Chardonnay Cask Finish is
part of the Elgin Classic Collection and
offers a perfect balance of caramelised
fruit, butterscotch and lingering notes
of toasted oats.
Only launched last year,
the
Glen Moray Elgin Heritage 18 year old
has certainly impressed whisky critics
and drinkers, including myself,
it has an undeniable First Fill
oak influence, the 18 years it has spent
maturing in First
Fill American oak and the fact that it
is non chill
filtered and has a bottling strength of 47% ABV has
made this a pleasure, a
delicious very enjoyable mature Speyside
dram.
You will find both the
award winning Glen Moray whiskies along with the rest of the
current Glen Moray whisky range available from
specialist online whisky retailers such
as The Whisky Exchange
and
Master of
Malt
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