Glenmorangie has announced a three-year continuation of its successful partnership with golf’s Open Championship.Glenmorangie will be the ‘Spirit of The Open’ when the contest comes to St Andrews, the home of golf, in 2015, and the subsequent two years at Royal Troon and Royal Birkdale. Marc Hoellinger, President & CEO, The Glenmorangie Company commented, “Glenmorangie’s pursuit of perfection mirrors the mindset required from the world’s top golfers as they seek to lift the iconic Claret Jug.”
Glenmorangie has revealed its finest – and rarest – whisky creation to date, Pride 1978, which has enjoyed the longest extra-maturation period of any single malt produced by the distiller in its 171-year history. Only 700 decanters of the latest limited edition, Pride 1978, are available to purchase.
The launch follows on from the success of 2011’s Pride 1981 – a sell-out collector’s item – the new 34 year-old addition, unveiled at an exclusive launch at New York’s Academy Mansion, started as a 19 year-old whisky before being extra-matured for 15 years in casks which had previously contained an exquisite French claret wine. It retails at a substantial… £3,700.
Glenmorangie has released it’s fifth annual Private Edition, Companata. The latest addition to Glenmorangie’s group of rare malts is aged in Grand Cru and Côtes du Rhône casks. The whisky follows last year’s release of Ealanta. The name Companata translates from Scots Gaelic as friendship and celebrates the continuing relationship between Glenmorangie and its French vineyards.
Benefiting from non-chill filtration for extra body and texture, the whisky has a nose of red berries, woodsmoke and nutty oak and has a spicy palate of stewed fruits, sugared plums alongside milk chocolate and brown sugar.
Director of Distilling and Whisky Creation, Dr Bill Lumsden said, “To complement the bold, spicy character imparted from the Grand Cru casks, I selected a parcel of Glenmorangie which had been extra-maturing in casks having previously contained a lusciously sweet fortified wine from Côtes du Rhône. It took some time, but with careful fine tuning we reached a harmonious assemblage which proved the perfect balance; neither too bold nor too tame!”
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