Mortlach Grey Label 1980's

Mortlach 15 Year Old 2007 - SIGNATORY VINTAGE

A delightfully received Xmas gift - although much suggestive psychology, aka nagging, was employed - was this little beauty. I've been enjoying Mortlach lots, of late, and this was a big ticket item so hopes were high. Been open five months with just under half left. Review is with a few drops of water and sat a good forty minutes or more, and...

Score 90/100

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

Mortlach 21 Year Old / Gordon & MacPhail

Gordon & Macphail – one of the leading bottlers of Scotland – has a huge stock of Mortlach casks. They started filling them very early on. Remember the Mortlach 70 Year Old that appeared in their Generations Series in 2008? It was the oldest Mortlach ever. We have to make due with a much younger version, but still matured for 21 years. It was...

Score 82/100

Mortlach 10 Year Old 2012 - Artist Collective 6.6 (La Maison du Whisky)

Another Mortlach! This one bottled by LMDW's Artist Collective range, at 48% and with a 'sherry finish'. Must have been quite 'fresh' sherry casks, judging by the colour, which is a very attractive dark, reddish copper. Bottle's been open two months with two thirds left. Nose - I've found the nose to be quite the chameleon: tonight I find,...

Score 89/100