Glenmorangie Milsean is the latest release in Glenmorangie’s Private Edition. It is the first Glenmorangie expression to be extra-matured in heavily toasted Portuguese red wine casks. Milsean (Scots Gaelic for ‘sweet things’) and is also the seventh release in the Private Edition collection.
Created from Glenmorangie first matured in ex-bourbon oak casks, Glenmorangie Milsean then spent a number of years in casks which had contained Portuguese red wine.
Dr Bill Lumsden said, “A glass of Glenmorangie Milsean transports me straight to an old-fashioned sweet shop with its sweet and spicy bouquet, with hints of sugar cane, ripe fruits and fudge. Extra-maturing Glenmorangie in heavily toasted red wine casks for the first time, has allowed us to create a whisky recalling a bygone era. I hope its deep tastes of cherries, angelica, candied orange peel and unusual intensity of caramelized fruits, will surprise and delight whisky aficionados and malt connoisseurs.” It is bottled at 46% ABV, and is non-chill filtered. RRP £75.99.
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!”