Glenmorangie Harrison Ford takes the spotlight after Monday’s Laphroaig 14-Year-Old Willem Dafoe review, as our celebrity-and-whisky week continues with another heavyweight pairing. It makes for a neat contrast with Dafoe’s wonderfully eccentric Islay turn, and it sets the stage for Friday’s final collaboration as the week’s closing act.
Glenmorangie Harrison Ford (2026) Review
The Glenmorangie Harrison Ford Limited Edition is a no-age-statement (NAS) Highland single malt Scotch whisky released in early May 2026. This whisky was co-created by the legendary Hollywood actor alongside Glenmorangie’s Director of Whisky Creation, Dr. Bill Lumsden. Harrison Ford specifically requested a whisky with a bit more ‘bite’ than the classic smooth Glenmorangie house style. To achieve this, Lumsden married classic ex-bourbon cask-aged Glenmorangie with a parcel of ‘heavily aged’ whisky finished in toasted Portuguese red wine casks. It is presented at 46.5% ABV and is officially confirmed to be both non-chill filtered and of natural colour. The bottle was designed to be opened and enjoyed rather than purely collected, marked by an accessible official retail price of £75 in the UK, roughly €85 to €90 in Europe, and $100 in the US. The current lowest prices at US retailers range from $94.99 to $99.99.
Colour:
Burnished.
Nose:
Neat: The nose opens with bright, zesty, and sharp citrus notes, specifically orange marmalade, candied lemon, and grapefruit peel. Behind the vibrant citrus lies a softer, elegant floral profile of honeysuckle and jasmine, anchored by a gentle, buttery beeswax polish and some minty freshness.
Palate:
Neat: The palate delivers the requested ‘bite’ almost immediately – a lively, grippy texture driven by the Portuguese wine cask tannins that appears after a couple of seconds. This sharp grip of grapefruit and Seville orange quickly softens into a richer, creamier profile of baked bread, apricot, muscovado sugar, and buttery toffee. A surprising, subtle mentholic lift cuts through the richness mid-palate, before the Tuscan wine casks provide some vinous and earthy notes.
Finish:
The finish is long, complex, and gently drying. It fades elegantly with lingering notes of sweet orange oil, a touch of dry oak tannin, and a slightly leathery, earthy character provided by the toasted wine casks.
Comments:
Another celebrity involved after Monday’s Laphroaig 14-year-old Willem Dafoe, and another quite successful involvement. This Glenmorangie Harrison Ford is really nice, with a lovely nose, but the palate feels slightly inferior, as it does not provide that much of a bite, and does so with a slight delay, and some vinous and darker earthy and woody notes. But that nose is gorgeous. At about €90 it feels expensive; it would have felt like a better value around €70.
Rating: 6.5/10
Thanks Hartmut!