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Glenmorangie 1974-1999 - Original Maltings
Glenmorangie 1974 - 1999. Original Maltings. One of 2,000 bottles. 50cl. 43%.
A fascinating limited edition Glenmorangie 1974 vintage Highland single malt, bottled in 1999 as part of the distillery’s celebrations marking the approach of the new millennium.
This particularly interesting Glenmorangie was produced using malted barley from the distillery’s original floor maltings at Tain. The maltings had differed from the modern process in several respects, including the use of peat, giving this whisky an unusual link to an earlier style of Glenmorangie production.
Distilled in 1974 and bottled in 1999, making the whisky approximately 24 or 25 years old, the Original Maltings was restricted to just 2,000 individually numbered 50cl bottles at 43%. The whisky was selected from just four old casks, making this a genuinely small-batch release.
The presentation was deliberately historic, with the bottle carrying a reproduction of Glenmorangie’s original trademark label, dating from around 1920, while the substantial wooden presentation case explains the story of the original maltings and the inspiration behind the release.
One of the older and more prestigious special Glenmorangie bottlings produced around the millennium, the 1974 Original Maltings is an increasingly sought-after example of the distillery’s experimental and commemorative releases of the late 1990s.
Glenmorangie is the 10th largest malt whisky distillery in Scotland with a capacity of around 6.5m litres per year, but punches above its weight in sales volumes, where it is ranked 5th in the world for single malt Scotch whisky. Glenmorangie was expanded to its current 12 stills in 2009, and capacity has recently been augmented with the addition of two extra stills in 2021 for a separate, experimental distillery onsite exploring possible future innovations in distillation technique.
Glenmorangie is almost never independently bottled, although teaspooned casks occasionally appear as Westport. The official core range comprises the classic Glenmorangie age statement and wood finish editions alongside the popular Signet expression, which uses a proportion of chocolate malt, and a variety of small batch and limited edition bottlings each year. In 2024 a new 12-year-old edition replaced the iconic Glenmorangie Original 10-year-old.
Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.
This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.