Longmorn Glenlivet 1970 Gordon & Macphail

Longmorn 16 Year Old

This is the standard bottling of Longmorn, replacing the old 15 Year Old since 2007. The nose is rife with cookies, filled with fruit. Pears and apples, primarily. Very sweet with a bit of vanilla, some marzipan, malt and slightly oaky. But still, the nose is one-dimensional, with little depth. It has a creamy mouthfeel and tastes quite spicy at...

Score 79/100

Longmorn 9 Year Old 2010 Hart Brothers

This Longmorn was bottled last year by Hart Brothers. It’s a young malt, at cask strength, that was finished on a Marsala wine cask. The nose is pretty shy. It takes a while before it offers some strawberry and melon, sprinkled with icing sugar and wet wood. Becomes sweeter after it has breathed somewhat. So sweet in fact, that it turns a bit...

Score 84/100

Longmorn 19 Year Old 1992 Archives

In the newest release from Archives, the bottlings from Whiskybase, you will also find a Longmorn. It matured for 19 years on a bourbon cask and was bottled at 48,5% ABV. Only 60 bottles. Where is the rest of the cask, I wonder. It is pretty light and rather mineral on the nose. Flints? Some fruit is trying to break through. Citrus, peach,...

Score 84/100

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