Longmorn 20 años 1992 Cask 71741 Dimensions Duncan Taylor

Longmorn 14 Year Old 1996 A D Rattray

This is (bar the Carn Mor Vintage Collection release) the youngest Longmorn I’ve tried so far. It matured for 14 years on a bourbon cask that yielded 304 bottles. It is very pale, which makes me wonder if it was a refill cask. The nose is sweet on apple, lemon, peach and fresh grass or hay. Quite mineraly, too. Turkish delight in the hay-loft....

Score 85/100

Longmorn 12 Year Old 1996 Dun Bheagan

I have had the pleasure of trying several Longmorn, but this is only my third youngling. Two other 12 year olds were the Longmorn 1996 in the Carn Mor Vintage Collection, the other the rather outstanding Longmorn 12 Year Old from Gordon & Macphail. This one was bottled in 2009 under the Dun Bheagan label from Ian Macleod. The nose is rather...

Score 77/100

Longmorn 12 Year Old Gordon & Macphail

Longmorn can be found in the heart of Speyside, right next to BenRiach. We saw, during our visit of the distillery in 2010, that they even share warehouses. Gordon & Macphail, be well known bottler from Elgin (which is not much further down the road, actually), has bottled quite a few Longmorn already. Today I will try the entry level version...

Score 86/100

Longmorn 1971

The label says Longmorn-Glenlivet and the typical red shield with the letters LDG is present. It was distilled in 1971 and bottled at the age of 30 by Gordon & Macphail, the famous independent bottler from Elgin. The color is a fantastic brown, like cough syrup. I taste it H2H with a 33 Year Old from the same year and the same bottler. The...

Score 87/100