Glen Mhor 8 Year Old Bottled 1970s G M Gordon & Macphail

Glen Mhor 1982 27 Year Old

Nose: grassy / flinty, with an alcohol kick and some minor fruity / honey notes. Faint hints of coconut and leather. A bit of lemon zest and menthol. A wee touch of soot. Interesting because it’s quite rough and delicately floral at the same time. Old-style. Mouth: sweet and punchy attack. Quickly turns to grassy and flinty flavours again, with a...

Score 82/100

Glen Mhor 1970 Campbell & Clark Ltd 1164/1166, 25 Year Old

from a purchased sample Nose: Here we are on sherry, varnished leather, roasted coffee grinds, and attending cocoa. Wax, giving a pseudo-smoky quality, and mustiness. More on chocolate with time, and there is clear jammy fruit tucked away. Cherry latrices and strawberry-rhubarb compote. This has finesse. Some fudgy maltiness, and alcoholic...

Score 91/100

Glen Mhor 34 Year Old 1966 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

The Old Malt Cask bottlings by Douglas Laing are always 50% (or cask strength if that is less). This is the oldest Glen Mhor that I have tried so far, from 1966. A whisky from before I was born. That always has a special ring to it, no? And that colour? This is almost black! The nose, which is fairly closed, is more like a herb liqueur than a...

Score 76/100

Glen Mhor 1979 22 Year Old

Glen Mhor (say Glen Vawr) means Great Valley in Gaelic. She was owned by Diageo that shut it down in 1983 during its big round of closures. For production, water was taken from Loch Ness. This bottling by G&M, the best known Scottish bottler from Elgin, contains a liquid that was distilled in 1979 and bottled after 21 years. Hmmm, the nose is...

Score 78/100