About Glenmorangie Grand Vintage Malt 1997 Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Glenmorangie’s Master Distiller and Blender Dr. Bill Lumsden thinks of himself as an artist first and scientist second, despite holding a PhD in fermentation science. Glenmorangie’s vintage series is a celebration of uniqueness with each year offering a different expression. Grand Vintage Malt 1997 from the Bond House No. 1 Collection is a Highland single malt Scotch that was distilled in 1997. Initially matured in ex-bourbon casks for a decade, the whisky spent an additional 13 years in red wine casks from Château Montrose in Saint-Estèphe, Bordeaux, developing fruity dark berry aromas and tastes. Then, the whisky was blended with a spirit that was aged in ex-bourbon, sherry, and other, secret casks.
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About Glenmorangie
In 1738, a brewery was built upon Morangie Farm in the Highlands region of Scotland. A century later, William Matheson acquired the farm and equipped the Morangie brewery with two stills that he purchased second-hand, and renamed the brewery-converted-distillery Glenmorangie.
Glenmorangie Single Malt Scotch Whisky is made using malted barley, which is mashed and fermented with water sourced from the Tarlogie Spring. The water produced from the spring, which spends nearly a century underground being filtered through layers of limestone before it is extracted, is unusually rich in minerals. In the 1980s, when development in the area threatened the spring’s water quality, Glenmorangie purchased 600 acres of land around and including the spring in order to ensure consistent water quality and adequate supply.
After the barley has been fermented, the wash is twice distilled through Glenmorangie’s copper-pot stills by a team of 16 distillers known as the Sixteen Men of Tain. Glenmorangie’s stills are equipped with relatively small boiler pots, which increases the exposure of the whisky to the copper, resulting in a more pure flavor. In addition, the stills are nearly seventeen feet tall — the tallest of any distillery in Scotland — and as a result, produce a lighter, more refined whisky.
About Scotch
Scotch is the most popular whisky in the world and is considered the king of them all! There are five whisky regions in Scotland (six if you count the not officially recognized Islands), and each of them produces spirits with unique properties and distinct tasting notes. (The type of grain used determents the type of the scotch.)
Malt whisky is made of malted barley, and grain whisky uses other grains like corn or wheat. Most of the time, a whisky is blended from different distilleries hence the name blended scotch, but if a malt whisky is produced in a single distillery, we get something extraordinary called a single malt.
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