Glenmorangie distillery

And then what they'll do is, They'll buy something special.

So they'll buy their Johnny Walker or their Glenmorangie or their Glen Levitt.

And they're like, okay, this is my daily drinker.

I'm going to get my bottle of this.

Do we want to do that? Or do we want to do that sample that's behind you there?

Yeah, let's do the sample because I did tell Phillip we'd try it.

And if anybody's ever interested in a weird tasting Glenmorangie,

the Harrison Ford edition.

So I was a chemical engineer at uni, then a distillery design I've done, then I've done malting, I've done distilling.

Then when I was 10 years at Glenmorangie, buying casks, maturing whisky, blending.

And then I did all of that distilling.

I was across the whole thing.

They'd been looking for like a year or something.

I knew I was quite good at nose and stuff because there's quite a lot of sensory involved in malting for one and I'd passed all the sensory panel things at Diageo and stuff but I'd never physically done it but the recruiter was like I want to meet you, had a chat, was quite surprised at how varied my CV was for being you know like 32 or something, 33 so then I got to interview with Bill So I did an interview with the CEO and the marketing manager, then I did an interview with Bill, then I did an interview with the director of operations.

So the CEO of? Glenmorangie Company, which is a part of LVMH.

Big old job that.

So I really love the Stromness article.

Glenmorangie, I'm a big fan of dogs, and they have a photo of the whole Glamoranji team with not one but two dogs in there, and what looks like an experimental, almost illicit still.

But you imagine that it probably isn't illicit because part of the team in the photo are the customs officers, and you can tell that by the hats that they wear.

There's a whole hat hierarchy going on in there.

So I went to every single one of those at the Brandy Library when I was living in New York, which was awesome.

And they'd have Glenmorangie or Johnny Walker or Maker's Mark or Woodford Reserve.

And it was like the best deal.

I paid $0.

I drank with him once at the bar, my back towards his back.

He ordered a Glenmorangie meat with a splash of water, and I copied him.

I listened as he chatted with his two friends about sex, about politics.

Nothing consequential.

Yours?

So the first one I'll talk about, John, um, in terms of value for money and maybe an opening dram for the, for the day or the, the night, um, is this one here, Glenmorangie 12-year-old from Tain, just north of Inverness.

Actually, this was my late father-in-law's favorite malt whisky.

He was a blends man as well, but when he went malt, it was always Glenmorangie.

Um, lots of times when I'm speaking to people, John, about golf or whisky, it's nostalgia.

"Oh, it used to be cheaper back then," or, "Now it's too expensive." I mean, Glenmo 12, if you're shopping around, you can still get for close to 30 pounds, and whereas a lot of whiskies have maybe been, what would you call it, shrinkflation.

So you used to get the 15-year-old, now it's a 12-year-old for the same price.

Glenmorangie's actually gone the other way.

I was fuming.

No, Glenmorangie.

No, because you can't take it back, can you? The orange whisk, because I only took hand luggage, innit?

Yeah.

I like the orange-flavoured whisky.

It's quite nice, Glenmorangie.

Oh, I've not had that.

That sounds nice.