Scotland, Speyside. Distillery operational. Owner: La Martiniquaise

In 1923, Glen Moray became the owner of Macdonald & Muir, which at the time owned the Glenmorangie distillery. It was in the wake of this giant that Glen Moray forged its path. A path characterized first by the blends of the company it had joined, Bailie Nicol Jarvie (BNJ), James Martin and Highland Queen, and then from the 80s by its own bottlings aged 5, 8 and 12 years old. The late 1980s saw the release of a series of vintages, including bottlings from 1960, 1963, 1964 and 1959, which formed a collection in and of themselves.

A Glen Moray bottled in the 1990s. Owned at the time by Macdonald & Muir (which became Glenmorangie in 1996), Glen Moray acted as one of the group’’s lower priced whiskies. Sales were good but profits limited and the brand image suffered from this positioning. Glen Moray was eventually sold to La Martiniquaise in 2008. The distillery had nonetheless released a comprehensive range of single malts in the 1970s and 1980s with a 5 year old, 10 year old, 12 year old, 15 year old and 17 year old.