Mortlach 12 Year Old 1997 Old Malt Cask Douglas Laing

Mortlach 16 Year Old 2002 Visit Lobland

The boys and girls of BYOB-C (Bring Your Own Bottle Club from Belgium) have quite a few releases on their resumé. There is the Lads of Lobland series, the ongoing Mobsters on Mopeds and the Bearded Commando’s (with ridiculously funny labels), but from time to time they bottle a one-off under the motto Visit Lobland. Under that label they have a...

Score 88/100

Mortlach 15 Year Old

My first attempt at writing a Whiskey review. I am revisiting a Gordon and MacPhail bottling of Mortlach 15 yo. The 750 ml bottle is about 1/3 left, been open for about 16 months. I wonder how the oxygen has interacted with the spirit if at all. Nice legs clinging. Tawny Port, slightly oxidized wine, hints of freshly opened container of raisins....

Score 70/100

Mortlach 19 Year Old 1997 Brachadair

Brachadair is actually Gaelic for maltman or brewster, derived from the Latin brasiator. Just a little side note. Patrick and his Brachadair team bottled a great cask of Mortlach 1997 at a whopping 54,3%. It was distilled in June 1997 and bottled in July 2016, so a full 19 years old. Wow, this is a dark Mortlach. Dark in the sense that it offers a...

Score 89/100

Mortlach 15 Year Old

After failing to act in time and buy this for $60 at Total Wine my curiosity got the best of me and I resorted to buying it for $80 at Hi Time Wine Cellars in Costa Mesa. This is the first Mortlach I've ever had. I've wanted to try it as I'd heard it was an above average Speyside and seeing as how it is hard to find outside Scotland I figured I...

Score 89/100