Mortlach 22 Year Old Octave Cask Duncan Taylor

Mortlach 1988 19 Year Old

I love my Mortlach's and thought I would give this rare Douglas and Laing bottling a try. Actually distilled in 1989 and bottled in 2008 (officially 19yo) making it at opening today a fine 23 years old. Non Chill-filtered and no added colouring, this bottling is a single cask offering finished in a Rhone wine cask producing 369 bottles at 50% abv...

Score 87/100

Mortlach 20 Year Old 1994 Malts of Scotland

Since Mortlach has been relaunched as a premium whisky (and thus premium prices) I prefer to look for independent bottlings. For example, the new official Mortlach 18 Year Old is more expensive than this 20 Year Old from Malts of Scotland. This one is very dark, by the way, thanks to the sherry cask on which it matured for two decades. The nose is...

Score 88/100

Mortlach 15 Gordon & MacPhail

I opened this in Spring and, will have to admit, fell in love straight away. Only my second ever Mortlach (after my darling F&F 16) but I'm a sucker for big, bold, old-skool and, yes, somewhat meaty profiles, and this ticks all the right boxes. Review is neat with just under half a bottle left. Nose - a very appealing initial hit of savoury...

Score 90/100

Mortlach 1971 32 Year Old

This is an older, official bottling from Mortlach, released in 2004. If you can find it today, you will have to cough up some 1.200 to 1.600 EUR to add it to your cabinet. Hence I am happy to say that my Dutch whiskybuddy Marcel sent me a sample. Very generous indeed! Wonderfully delicate and quite floral nose (not soapy, mind you!) with some...

Score 93/100