Longmorn Glenlivet 1956 Gordon & Macphail

Longmorn 1972 37 Years (Whisky Agency)

I tasted this alongside the Longmorn 1972/2006 for La Maison du Whisky. Nose: superb refill sherry – it shares a lot of influences with the LMdW bottling, but it’s definitely more elegant. The fruity side is bigger (mostly tangerine, banana and mango) and there are more flowery notes (violets and rosewater with some dry flowers). Big hints of...

Score 95/100

Longmorn 25 Year Old

A long morn is often what I've ended up with after opening a bottle of whisky - either in the good sense of going to bed as the sun comes up, or in the less fair sense of wishing I could go back to bed right now instead of walking around thanks very much. Fortunately Longmorn itself I associate more with the former, and this 25-year-old from...

Score 95/100

Longmorn SMWS 7.65 ‘A Balm for the Soul’

So, A Longmorn with a very enticing name : “A balm for the soul”. here’s to it delivering that promise… 2nd fill Sherry butt, and I am really looking forward to this one, since my experience with Longmorns is not vast to say the least. I need to try more. And here’s this one, and I have very good memories from the last one I reviewed here. Nose: A...

Score 90/100

Longmorn 16 Year Old 1996 Duncan Taylor Octave

The smaller the cask, the more intense the interation between the wood and the spirit. Logical. Duncan Taylor put this to the test with the The Octave Cask series. After a regular maturating in butts, they recasked the whisky in octaves, casks that are only one eight of the size of the butts. Duncan Taylor claims the whisky get a greater deapth...

Score 83/100