{"id":7026,"date":"2017-02-09T14:13:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T13:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/?p=7026"},"modified":"2017-02-09T14:13:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T13:13:45","slug":"glen-moray-distillery-120-years-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/glen-moray-distillery-120-years-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Moray Distillery: 120 years of History"},"content":{"rendered":"
120 years of single malt whisky making history at the Glen Moray distillery<\/a>, at the heart of Scotland\u2019s Speyside region, is celebrated throughout 2017.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The first drops of spirit ran from the copper pot stills at Glen Moray<\/a> on the 13th<\/sup>\u00a0September 1897.<\/strong> Over the last 120 years, just five men have had the honour of being \u201cMaster Distiller\u201d. The men who have made Glen Moray<\/a> great.<\/div>\n
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The current Glen Moray<\/a> distillery was originally developed as the Elgin West Brewery in 1830 and produced several local ales before redevelopment into a fully functional single malt distillery sixty-seven years later<\/span><\/span> when The Glen Moray Glenlivet Distillery Company Limited was formed on the 27th<\/sup>\u00a0January, 1897. Handwritten ledgers show the first spirit run being made on the 13th<\/sup>\u00a0September, 1897 using all local barley.<\/div>\n
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The early 1900\u2019s were turbulent times for malt whisky across Scotland, followed by the onset of World War One, enforced constriction of the production of malt whisky by the Pot Still Malt Distillery Association of Scotland in the early 1930\u2019s and World War Two.<\/div>\n
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Expansion continued during the 1950\u2019s and Glen Moray<\/a> Single Malt Distillery has recently undertaken expansion works so that the production capacity has grown to 6.5mla.\u00a0 Additional maturation warehouses have been built increasing the storage capacity from 90,000 barrels to 250,000 barrels.<\/div>\n
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Graham Coull, current Glen Moray<\/a> Master Distiller, took over the helm in 2005 and continues the tenacious, innovative stewardship, which has remained very much at the heart of the distillery since spirit first flowed from its stills.<\/div>\n
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To celebrate the 120th<\/sup>\u00a0Anniversary, Glen Moray<\/a> are introducing\u00a0\u201cMastery\u201d<\/b>\u00a0special release crafted by the fifth Master Distiller, Graham Coull, using whisky from five distinctive vintages, matured in a variety of fortified wine casks across the different decades.<\/div>\n
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120 years of single malt whisky making history at the Glen Moray distillery, at the heart of Scotland\u2019s Speyside region, is celebrated throughout 2017. The first drops of spirit ran from the copper pot stills at Glen Moray on the 13th\u00a0September 1897. Over the last 120 years, just five men have had the honour of being \u201cMaster Distiller\u201d. The men who have made Glen Moray …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[434],"tags":[1065,1064,1066,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7026"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7032,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions\/7032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}