Glen Moray distillery

Glen Moray began it’s life as the West Brewery, but was converted for distillation in 1897, unfortunately the pattison whisky crisis meant that Glen Moray was only operational until 1910. A short lived attempt to restart production in 1912 lasted only a few months.Following further financial troubles the distillery is sold to Macdonald & Muir part owners of Glenmorangie in 1920

Production resumes in 1923 and with the exception of the year 1932 when no whisky was produced at all, the distillery remained in production until 1958 when it was rebuilt with Saladin floor maltings. In 1978 the malting at the distillery ceased altogether the number of stills was expanded from two to four stills.

In 1996 Macdonald & Muir Ltd. was renamed Glenmorangie Plc. and focus was made on promoting the Glenmorangie brand, the following year Glenmorangie acquired Ardbeg and Glen Moray became something of a forgotten sister a trend which continued after the sale to Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessey in 2004.

Happily while Louis Vuitton announced a shift from production for blends in 2008 the French company La Martiniquaise bought Glen Moray making it a cerntrepiece of their Label 5 and Glen Turner blends, since then distillery capacity and production has scaled considerably and around 30% of production is now released as Malt.

Glen Moray factsheet

Can I tour Glen Moray?

Yes Glen Moray distillery is tourable. On Trip Advisor the distillery has been rated as excellent by 272 of 367 tours to date. This gives Glen Moray an overall rating of 4.5