Home Food Restaurant Reviews Recipes Drink Distilleries Whisky Gin Craft Beer Locations Scran Podcast The Highland Distillery has launched A Tale of Ice Cream - the fifth expression in imaginative series of single malts. Glenmorangie has released the fifth whisky in its Tale Of..
. series, and it's a sweet treat that pays homage to the ice cream parlour. Inspired by the irresistible flavours of an ice-cream parlour menu, the Glenmorangie whisky making team used high-vanillin casks for the first time to bring Glenmorangie’s sweetest, creamy vanilla notes to their best.
Combining melting notes of peach melba, scoops of vanilla and lemon sorbet, topped with coconut flakes and toffee sauce, A Tale of Ice Cream is a delicious treat. For more than 180 years, Glenmorangie’s whisky creators have been endlessly imaginative in their quest to create evermore delicious single malts. Led by director of whisky creation Dr Bill Lumsden , the team are constantly challenging themselves to take whatever captures their imaginations and turn it into whisky.
Some time ago, Dr Bill began to imagine how he could capture the flavours found in an ice-cream parlour in a single malt, bringing out even more sweet and creamy vanilla-like flavours in Glenmorangie’s spirit. After a host of experiments, he and master blender Gillian Macdonald combined single malt aged in bourbon casks with Glenmorangie’s first whisky finished in high-vanillin casks. These new oak casks had been especially toasted to .
