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Late to this party. I picked up a bottle on auction for £60 (£70 once fees included) a couple of months ago. That tells a story right there... For that price, and perhaps controversially, I genuinely think it's worth it. This is a tasty whisky that hits my preferred bourbon cask profile really well. Like you, somewhat annoyed at reaching this conclusion, but if whisky is tasty and decent value, I'm happy to let the flippers make a loss on the RRP and shell out my own money!

The mash bill contains 75/13/12 % corn/rye/barley. Actually it's a high-corn bourbon

Sadly for me, I still prefer the 10. I think the 12 is harsher and less malty.

Love the old 10. Really dislike the modern branding of the box which seems to trivialize the product and focus on different target customer. Haven't tried the new 10 or 12 but the price has gone up so all together not a great development from what I'm noticing. Considering some trusted reviews saying something is lost in the rebrand product vs the old 10 this is sounding like a marketing disaster in the making.

Bells blended whiskey is crap tastes terrible 😝

Yes, the whisky did look a bit cloudy to me compared to others which look very clear and bright. I remember nearly 20 years ago when I was doing a certificate in winemaking, we were discussing the use of cork and how the quality of cork available was decreasing as all the good cork trees were being used up. This was resulting in lesser quality cork being harvested and more cork tainted wines. We were questioning whether corks would need to be replaced by something else in the future and if so, by what. At the time we were discussing screw tops as an alternative, but people weren't sure because of the whole thing about opening a wine (or whisky) by popping the cork which would be lost by using a screw top. Now, synthetic corks may be a good alternative as long as they don't leach chemicals into the whisky or wine. Cheers!

Visited the distillery a couple of times on the free tour days. The whisky is OK but it's not competitively priced. Was looking at buying one of the single casks or 14 year old but you can get such better value like an 18 year old from a different distillery or a really good indi bottling.

My last bottle of Ardbeg Uigedail the cork snapped about 3/4 the way up, leaving barely anything left under the cap part to seal the bottle back up. Annoyingly it was a fairly disappointing bottling as well so not one I’ve reached for a lot. Managed to find a cork from another bottle that was a bit too wide so doesn’t fit flush to the top of the neck, but makes a good seal and does the job.

I bought both of these bottles last year on offer for a very good price. Honestly, I was very underwhelmed by both of them. Cheers

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Coming from SA, thanks for the good review!! I smell and taste rum and raisin ice cream!

haha you guys are nuts. I once took a 4 bottles of the same type of win but costs ranged from $5.00 to $100.00 a bottle. We did tastes tests and had them line them up in order what they thought they cost. Most of the the people that thought they knew wine well got the order backwards and people that new very little about wines had to order correct. Was pretty funny and embarrassing for some. I was entertained :) Rum is the same way. Sure the rot gut rums will taste pretty terrible metallic vs rums that are a little better but soon there is plateau a point of diminishing returns. I could put $80.00 label on a cheaper Appleton estates and a $5.00 label on say expensive Dimera rum and many people will say the cheap one is better just because I put a $80.00 price tag on it.

I had this noted as exceptional value after paying £5 more. £5 more for each. No problem with that but maybe that’s why whisky keeps going up. Am I part of the problem? Great review 👍

Great review! Cheers, Shane!

Shackleton was actually Irish, born in Kildare

dont like the repackaging cheapens it to me. looks like a bottle of cheap wine.

Just confirmed from Ardbeg’s Bill Lumsden himself in Whiskeycast from Nov 3rd. 12 is replacing not accompanying the original 10. He didn’t say exactly but reading between the lines the 12 is a combination of 1st & 2cd fill bourbon only. Said he played around with some sherry but abandoned it quickly.

As a few others have also said, Glenmorangie 10 is the botle that got me into whisky and I still have some fondness for it, even if I haven't been able to justify picking up a bottle in a long while. I also believe it's the top-selling single malt here in Scotland. Was curious how the new 12 stacked up, thanks for the review.

Update on the road. The distillery have paid for it to be resurfaced in October.

A very kind review, Shane. I went through a sample pack of Glenmorangie (pre-rebrand) and found this distillery to not suit me at all. I would take a Compass Box Orchard House any day over this castrated bottled boredom, plus the new design is hideous - but then again I'm clearly not in the target group, so to each their own. I will say they're marketing is good, they've been heavily reviewed since the rebrand.

Classic Glenmorangie, increasing their age statements rather than decreasing. Is the quality better as the age goes higher?.... doubtful. Looking forward to the head to head Shane, cheers!

Thanks for your thoughts here. Glenmorangie was the first whisky I enjoyed (I wasn’t as keen on the most common alternative, Glenfiddich), though it was many years later I got “into” whisky. I still like it as an easy sipper, one to drink in company without thinking about it. It’s also one I find easy to recognise - recently when I was offered a whisky in a pub without knowing which whisky, I immediately knew it was Glenmorangie.

Glenmorangie 10 was one of my first single malts along with Glenfiddich 12. I knew about the Glenfiddich 12 but had never heard of Glenmorangie. I bought the Glenmorangie 10 after watching a review on the Whisky Vault and enjoyed it. The new 12 isn't available here yet. As for the design, I don't like how the name is split. I preferred the previous design. Cheers!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this one Shane. Been a while since I've had a Glenmoragie in the glass, the pour presentation being one of the reasons (the grape influence on a lot of expressions being another). And for the record: great you manage to adjust the box to your sweater.☝🙂 Slàinte mhath

What's going in to Glenfiddich 12 which is a very good 40% expression? A great Spey style. Where are folk like us going with 40% though? Add to that the other misfortunes.

Haven’t tried the 12, but can’t imagine it’s very different from the 10. And at that price too… possibly the best mass market value single malt in my view. Definitely one of my go-to’s.

Here in the Czech Republic, Glenmorangie is a bit less available than its (in my humble opinion) main entry lvl competitors Glenfiddich and Glenlivet, so I never had a chance to taste it properly that often. So now I'm taking the opportunity to order the 10yo and new 12yo so I can compare them properly. Honestly I'm quite looking forward to it, as a return to these "beginner" whiskies feels quite refreshing. Despite the tragic presentation, they have something going for them. To answer your question the new-ish rebrand of Glenmorangie doesn't seem so bad to me, yes it's cheesy and everything but classy... but on the other hand it seems to me that they are accepting their position in the market and not playing at something they are not.

Great video. I love peated whiskies but I never tried Laphroaig, this was the video for me.

Glad to see you're back, was beginning to worry after you missed your upload last week 😉

Yes these are 43% here. The 10 was @ $42… the new 12 is closer to $60… Agree the profiles are similar…I will be doing a comparison hopefully soon. Cheers 🥃

Sometimes it's nice to have low abv whiskey. Especially if you wanna start your whiskey evening or just get a nice dram which isn't too expensive or dramatic.

Thanks for reviewing this whisky, I have yet to see it on the shelves in my area.

I'd like to try Scotch, but it's unaffordable where I live compared to bourbon. The price differences in whiskey around the world are crazy, we need to kick out the middleman and demand MSRP. I'm not paying 50 dollars for a watered down 40% Glenmorangie with cancer causing caramel coloring added.

The re-branding is hideous.

43% and $48 here in the New York area

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Great video ! Do you prefer this new one or the 12y Lasanta sherry cask ?

Another perfectly timed video. Just grabbed a 10 year because it was going away & loved it so much I went out & bought their Calvados, Port, & Sherry expressions. Fairly reasonable prices aside from the brandy finish which is a one-off. I think I may buy another 10 after this review I really appreciate this. Haven’t seen the 12 yet here locally in the states.

Thanks for this review. I hope by praising the good things about this product it will encourage LMVH to take the next step and give us a fully craft presentation. Hitting them with the Ralphy stick isn't the only tacktic.

Some time ago, Glenmorangie changed The Quinta Ruban from 12 years to 14 years. They have now done the same with entry-level whisky. From 10 to 12 years. As you say, Glenmorangie may be overstocked, or they're making more whiskey than they can sell, or... they're just using casks, that have already been used twice or thrice and that aren't as active anymore. The good thing about all of this is that they are aware of it and are trying to improve it. Anyway, 10 years ago I started my single malt journey with Glenfiddich, Glenlivet and Glenmorangie whiskies. And Glenmorangie The Quinta Ruban is still close to my heart. Also due to its 46 ABV strength.

Yes, exclusively Bourbon casks used in the maturation. I can personally vouch for this. *Kosher Certification by OU.* I agree with your general tasting notes of Orangy, honey and cereal notes but feel that it's just too watery. There are some similar Bourbon cask matured 40% abv single malts which I enjoy, like the Glenfiddich 12 American Oak, Glen Scotia 10, Glen Moray 12, Loch Lomond 10 etc., but for my taste, this Glenmorangie 12 as bottled, is too diluted.

Regarding the new box and lable.....imho...it looks cheap, no class at all. I prefer the old box and label. Cheers

I quite enjoy the old original 10 yo, for what I know is discontinued and replaced with this one. This new 12yo is on my "try before buy list". Here in Sweden, the fixed price is sek479 (£34) in todays currency. Cheers

The first official bottlings in the recognisable brown sepia labels labeled as "The Glenmorangie Pure Old Highland Malt Whisky" were released in very limited amounts in the 1950s. They didn't start bottling on a regular basis however until the mid-1960s. Glenmorangie nevertheless claim on their website that the original 10-Year-Old was released 175 years ago. That would be about 1849, which is obviously marketing BS! There were no widely available official releases of Malt or "Pure" whisky straight from an individual malt distillery until the 1960s. You could get the likes of Glenmorangie, Laphroaig, Lagavulin and Glenlivet from specialist outlets like Berry Bros, Cadenheads and Harrods and of course, directly from the distillery, but Malt Whisky wasn't even recognised as a product in its own right until Glenfiddich released their "Pure Malt" in 1963.

I believe basic 12 yo is addition to the whisky line, not a replacement of the 10yo release, which is present on their website and everywhere is in stock

No, I don't believe it. I was writing an article where I was reviewing the new Glenmorangie 12 The Original, and decided to take a break and see what was going on with the US Elections, when your video pops up, uploaded an hour ago, reviewing the same whisky. OK. I had to watch...

Breakfast Whisky? 🤔

Despite being American I never much warmed to Bourbon until I had a Knob Creek. I still generally prefer Scotch but do like Eagle Rare, Old Weller and Wild Turkey Rare Breed. Have you tried the unchillfiltered version of the latter?

I just got this for £25 really love it .

I use Chivas 12 as a cleaning solvent :)