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Glen Moray Chardonnay Barrel Finish & Bailie Nicol Jarvie

Glen Moray Chardonnay Barrel Finish & Bailie Nicol Jarvie
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Glen Moray Chardonnay Barrel Finish & Bailie Nicol JarvieGlen Moray Chardonnay Barrel Finish & Bailie Nicol Jarvie

Lot number: 431132

Winning bid: £55

No-age-statement Glen Moray finished in Chardonnay barrels (of all things). 70CL and 40%.

Glen Moray started life as West Brewery in Elgin run by Robert Thorne & Sons, and was converted to a distillery with 2 stills in 1897. Following a fire and extensive rebuilding program at their Aberlour Distillery, the company focused on production of Aberlour whisky, allowing the Glen Moray distillery to run down. It was closed in 1910. The distillery was purchased by the owners of the Glenmorangie Distillery, the MacDonald and Muir families at some time during the 1920s. The distillery received 2 additional stills in 1958 and at present has an annual capacity of around 2,000,000 litres.

The company now belongs to La Martiniquaise which uses part of its production in their blended Whisky Label 5. The distillery was expanded in 2012 and now produces 3,300,000 litres annually from 3 wash stills and 3 spirit stills.

Paired with BNJ. The brand was relaunched in 1994 by Nicol Anderson & Co. Ltd, based in Leith near Edinburgh. The composition of the blend was changed from the original recipe due to market forces. Only eight single malts from the Highlands (including Glenmorangie), Islay and Speyside (including Glen Moray) are blended together with grain whisky from the Girvan distillery in Ayrshire. In comparison, many blended whiskies contain between 20-40 single malts. The minimum maturation time in a cask is six years and the final BNJ whisky contains 60% single malt and 40% grain whisky. This is 70cl and bottled at 40%