Mortlach 19 años Manager's Dram

Mortlach 76.82

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

Mortlach 16 Year Old

I have to say the Mortlach Flora & Fauna 16yo from Diageo is flawless. It's almost a crime that it has been denied its place in The Classic Malts range. The whisky is matured for 16 long years in sherry casks. The nose is rich sherry and sumptously fruity christmas cake, on the palate there is a rush of plums, sweet summer fruits,...

Score 95/100

Mortlach Douglas Laing's Platinum Selection 18 Y.0.

I was incredibly lucky to come to one Moscow whisky event where one of the guests recommended that I try this rare whisky which there were only 242 bottles of in the entire world! Cask strength (58,1%), natural color, un-chillfiltered, single cask 18 Y.O. Mortlach from a sherry butt...It couldn't be any better than this! I felt incredibly...

Score 94/100

Mortlach 17 Year Old 1994 Malts of Scotland

While we are tasting Mortlach, let me continue with the new releases from Malts of Scotland. There is a Mortlach in there as well, the first for this German bottler. Oh, this is a weird nose. Powerful, to be sure. Slightly sourish. A little bit umami. Hearty as if from roast beef, that pushes the sweet dark fruits to the background. Garden herbs....

Score 87/100