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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

Name	Pronounced	AKA	Region	Country of Origin
Glen Moray	glen mur*ray		Speyside	Scotland
Status	Active	Whisky Type	Website	Tours Available
Active	1897 - Present	Malt	Glen Moray	Tour Link
Manager	Distiller	Blender	Owned by	Parent Group
	Graham Coull		La Martiniquaise

Glen Moray Timeline:

1828: Elgin West Brewery is established

1897: Elgin West Brewery is reconstructed as Glen Moray distillery

1910: Glen Moray is mothballed following the Pattison whisky crash

1912: Glen Moray reopens briefly but closes again the same year

1920: Financial issues result in Glen Moray being sold to Macdonald & Muir Ltd. the owner of owner of Glenmorangie

1923: Production resumes

1932: Production ceases for the year

1958: The distillery is refitted with Saladin floor maltings

1971: Stills become steamheated

1978: Floor maltings are terminated

1979: Stills increased to four

1996: Macdonald & Muir Ltd. change their name to Glenmorangie Plc.

2004: Glenmorangie Plc. is acquired by LVMH Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy

2008: Glen Moray is sold to La Martiniquaise and become components in the top selling Label 5 blend and Glen Turner blended malt

2009: Glen Moray makes it's first peated whisky

2010: La Martiniquaise open Starlaw grain distillery

2012: The distillery is expanded, all six of the existing warehouse stills are changed over to spirit stills and a further three wash stills are added

2016: A Lauter mashtun is fitted

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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