Mortlach 21 Year Old 1986 Mission Murray McDavid

Mortlach 1990, 22 YO (AD Rattray)

from a friend Nose: Some oxidative sherry and light red fruit notes but it's all pretty soft and subtle strawberry, jammy baked goods. Vanilla and chocolate malt. A slightly salty note as well. Peaches, apricots, and other soft fruit in a salad (pears, perhaps). Lemon and waxy zest and wood. Evolves a bit with air, and some floral notes develop....

Score 84/100

Mortlach 22 Year Old 1992 Douglas Laing XOP

The absolutely top notch malts from Douglas Laing are bottled in their XOP – Extra Old Particular – range. This Mortlach 1992 slept 22 long years on a sherry butt that still yielded 225 bottles at a cask strength of no less than 57,1% ABV. Where is my water? Deep sherry on the nose! Those who know me know what I mean. All kinds of dark (and not so...

Score 90/100

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 19 Year Old 1990 Signatory Cask Strength Collection

This suspciously pale Mortlach from Signatory – in their Cask Strength Collection with those mighty decanters – was bottled from a sherry butt. I presume it was a refill sherry cask. No less than 639 bottles were filled at cask strength, some ten years ago. I recently presented it at an online masterclass and it divided the room. Well, the nose...

Score 84/100