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- Suggested retail price: $199
- Thursday, February 12 (for as long as it lasts), we're pouring a one-ounce pour for $7
Duncan Taylor & Company has ownership of one of the largest privately-held collections of rare scotch whisky casks. The company has been “laying down” casks from premium Scottish distilleries for decades and has, in recent years, made its stores available to whisky connoisseurs throughout the World. Duncan Taylor has its origins in Glasgow where the company was initially a merchant and broker of Scotch Whisky casks within the Industry. Duncan Taylor provides top quality casks to be filled at Scotland’s leading distilleries. This is how this independent merchant builds up its stock of whisky. When the company moved its headquarters close to Speyside, it also decided to release whisky direct to consumers under its own name.
This bottling is from Glen Moray, built on the site of the West Brewery on the banks of the River Lossie. Glen Moray Distillery was founded in 1897, but closed in 1910. It reopened briefly a couple of years later, but then closed once more. In 1920, Macdonald and Muir acquired the distillery and once more spirit flowed from the stills. The two original stills were replaced in the 1970s and two more stills were added, giving the distillery its current yearly capacity of two million liters. In 1996 Macdonald and Muir Ltd renamed itself Glenmorangie Plc and in 2004 the group was acquired by Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, for the princely sum of £300 million. The Glenmorangie distillery pioneered exotic wood finishes and Glen Moray championed white wine finishes. The distillery was again put up for sale in 2008.
Glen Moray now belongs to La Martiniquaise which uses part of its production in their blended Whisky Label 5. The distillery was expanded in 2012 and now produces 3,300,000 litres annually from 3 wash stills and 3 spirit stills. We're happy to have this older bottle from Duncan Taylor.
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The Exclusive Malts - Littlemill 25 Year (1988)