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Okay, so the London transport network is f@cked, there’s more snow due this afternoon and I live too far away from work to risk trying to get in and find myself stuck in Park Royal when I try to get home – nearly three hours it took me yesterday.

I’ve also managed to get myself temporarily barred from remotely accessing my work computer by getting my password wrong too many times (because I’m a total numpty). So in fact the only thing I can work at from home today is Wordpress.

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Hello everyone, and first of all can I say a big Thank You for all your contributions to last week’s Supernova / Octomore post, which has provoked a fascinating exchange of views in the comments section.

Now, this next item is not exactly new, but has only just come to our attention via the peerless Serge over at the equally peerless Whiskyfun.com and is simply too good for us to pass up (I hope that this is ok with Serge, especially as Whiskyfun has no comments section!). 

It would seem that the repositioning of Glenmorangie by Louis Vuitton-Moet Hennessy has just been ramped up by several hundred notches (deep-discounting in supermarkets notwithstanding), if this offer from The Robb Report (a website/blog devoted to rich men’s playthings) from December is anything to go by:

“Ultimate Gifts: 17th Man of Tain

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I’ll do a post about the Special Releases tasting very soon, but first I have to tell you about our Glenmorangie Signet event at TWE Vinopolis last Monday (20th October).  We were doubly blessed as this was our second visit from Glenmorangie plc in consecutive weeks after the Ardbeg tasting the previous Monday.

Tasting line-up

Rachel Barrie, Glenmorangie’s Master Blender was scheduled to present the show, but unfortunately was unable to attend.  Thankfully, Annabel Meikle who works on the team with Rachel and Dr. Bill Lumsden very kindly stepped into the breach and gave us a thoroughly entertaining evening.  The line-up was as follows – I’ll try and limit myself to short descriptions of all but the Signet as otherwise this post will be far too long, even by my own bloated elephantine standards:

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It has been widely reported that LVMH (that’s Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy), parent company of Glenmorangie plc, have agreed to flog off their unloved step-child Glen Moray to fellow French company La Martiniquaise.  Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed, but the deal is expected to be finalised by the end of October.

It’s not news at all that Glenmorangie have been looking to shift Glen Moray for some time, being unwilling to invest any money that could be better spent on pewter mugs and fancy leather boxes with which to garland the increasingly absurd new releases of sister distilleries Ardbeg and Glenmorangie.  With LVMH being a luxury goods company, it was clear that attention (and investment) would be focused on the blue chip distilleries.

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