Glen Moray

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Glen Moray

No: 35
Producer: Macdonald & Muir
Region: Highlands
District: Speyside(Lossie) - Multimap view
OS Sheet 28 ; Map reference NJ 22 63 ; Latitude 57 39° N, Longitude 3 18° W
Founded 1897 ; Operating Status (1999): operating

It is purely coincidence that malt whiskies with similar names, Glens Morangie and Moray are made by the two distilleries of the Macdonald & Muir company. Glen Morangie may be better known but its more southerly sibling is gaining its own reputation. The principal version of Glen Moray has in recent years been subtitled '93, to mark the year of Macdonald & Muir's foundation a century ago, though the whisky in the bottles is a mere 12 years old.

It is a second coincidence that both Glenorangie and Glen Moray were formerly breweries. Moray was converted into a distillery in 1897, acquired by Macdonald & Muir in the 1920s and extended in 1958.
© Michael Jackson 1994

Distillery rating: 3*

Elgin, Morayshire, IV30 1YE
Tel: 01343-542577

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