Mortlach 1970 21 Year Old Turatello

Mortlach 1990 17 Year Old Sherry Cask

Recently smitten by Mortlach I've been out looking for cask strength offerings after buying the G&M 15yo 43% which is superb and picked up this Murray Mcdavid Mission series, 1990 17yo limited edition at 54.7%. Without water: Beautiful deep burnt orange colour with an amazing nose of rich sherry fruit cake with a zing of lemon and sherbet...

Score 95/100

Mortlach 46 Year Old 1936 Gordon & Macphail

At a local whisky festival I spotted a bottle of Mortlach that just screamed to be picked up. It was not just the price tag of 55 EUR for a 2cl dram. The fact that the label sported 1936 in large print, means this is a pre-war whisky. This Mortlach was bottled after 46 long years of maturation, somewhere in the early eighties, by Gordon &...

Score 94/100

Mortlach SMWS 75.82 Gunpowder Green and lava rock

I've been working my way through my Society sample bottles that I received when I joined The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. I'd started with the Campbeltown, then the Islay. That left me with two Speysides. A fifteen year old and a twenty-one year old. The Speyside I decided to crack open was the fifteen year old. I pulled up the Society's handy...

Score 88/100

SMWS 76.70 - Angels would weep

Nose: Quite hot and a little reserved at first. Rich and somewhat meaty sherry but with enough freshness to not leave you feeling that the malt has been completely overpowered, fig and raisin sit at the fore. A little water opens things up beautifully adding black cherries, sweet tobacco and a hint of leather. Complex, feels a little older than...

Score 86/100