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GLENMORANGIE

Glenmorangie (the toponym is believed to derive from either Gaelic gleann mor na sith "vale of tranquillity" or gleann mór innse "vale of big meadows") is a distillery in Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland that produces single malt Scotch whisky.

The distillery is owned by The Glenmorangie Company Ltd, whose main product is the range of Glenmorangie single malt whisky. Glenmorangie is categorised as a Highland distillery and boasts the tallest stills in Scotland.

It is available in Original, 18 and 25 year old bottlings, special cask bottlings, cask finishes, extra matured bottlings and a range of special edition bottlings.

The Glenmorangie Company also owns the Ardbeg Distillery on Islay and The Scotch Malt Whisky Society based in Leith, Edinburgh.

Legend tells that alcoholic beverages of one kind or another were produced in and around Tain since the Middle Ages.

The Sixteen Men of Tain, to whom the bottle refers, are also widely believed to be the source and origin of the popular "Highlander" film and television series, due to popular Scottish legend that the Sixteen Men of Tain took part in an epic battle that left only one man of Tain standing.
This, of course, happened after they perfected the distillation process.

It is said that the production of alcohol started at Morangie Farm in 1738, when a brewery was built that shared the farm's water source, the Tarlogie Spring.

A former distillery manager, William Matheson, acquired the farm in 1843 and converted the Morangie brewery to a distillery, equipped with two second hand gin stills.
He later renamed the distillery Glenmorangie.

The distillery was purchased by its main customer, the Leith firm Macdonald and Muir, in 1918.
The Macdonald family would retain control of the company for almost 90 years.