Mortlach 17 Year Old 1995 Dimensions Duncan Taylor

Mortlach 16 Year Old

I've tried many Mortlachs this past year especially the G&M 15yo and 21yo and some Murray Mcdavid's 18yo at cask strength. All very very good Whiskies... This 16yo is the first own bottling (OB) I've bought and I have to say it's great stuff. Beautiful mahogany colour, a classic sherried Speysider like Aberlour Abunadh rich and inviting. On...

Score 90/100

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

Mortlach 2013 9 Year Old Friday Night Simply Whisky

I've been hoovering up Mortlachs left, right and centre recently, so when I saw this had spent it's nine years in an ex sherry butt (amount of fills unknown!), I bit. Quite interested to see how it holds up at a younger age too. And, completely unrelated, I think I may have just discovered another hedgehog (one scared the bejesus out of me a...

Score 87/100

Mortlach 20 Year Old 1978 Rare Malts Selection

Ah… a golden oldie from the Rare Malts Selection, longer in the bottle by now than it ever spent in the cask. Distilled in 1978 and bottled after 20 years at a whopping 62.2% ABV. You’ll have a very hard time getting hold of this bottle now – or need very deep pockets – but I got my hands on it via a raffle and poured it as the finale in my online...

Score 89/100