Mortlach 13 Year Old 1998 Signatory

Mortlach 26 Year Old 1987 Adephi

Independent bottler Adelphi – which also owns the fairly new Ardnamurchan distillery – likes to bottle single casks at cask strength. This is one of those, from the Beast of Dufftown. This Mortlach 1987 matured for 26 long years on a refill sherry cask. I confess, it’s one I’ve been looking out for. Yes! Very sweet and aromatic nose with the...

Score 87/100

Mortlach 16 Year Old

Mortlach 16 year old flora and fauna is in our winter warmers tasting pack. Tony writes: The vast majority of the production of up to 2.8 million litres at Mortlach goes into Johnny Walker Black Label. Because of this, Mortlach has a very low profile as a single malt; it does not even have a website. There are only two official bottlings: this 16...

Score 88/100

Mortlach 12 Year Old 2007 Carn Mor Strictly Limited

I must confess, the first time I tried this Mortlach, I was not very impressed. The second time was much better, but I still was not convinced. I’m writing these notes during the third round (luckily I got quite a big sample from my buddy Manny, allowing me to try it even five times). It keeps getting better. The nose is honeysweet on red fruit,...

Score 85/100

Mortlach 18

After tasting the very impressive mortlach 25, I now get the chance to review the little sister, this 18yo is a mixture of American oak and European sherry casks, both first fill and re fill casks were used. This is a 50cl bottle and has an abv of 43.4%… Nose.. At first it is a little underwhelming, not the nose I expected….. BUT.. wait 10 minutes...

Score 86/100