Mortlach 21 Year Old Gordon & Macphail

Mortlach 20 Year Old 1978 Rare Malts Selection

Ah… a golden oldie from the Rare Malts Selection, longer in the bottle by now than it ever spent in the cask. Distilled in 1978 and bottled after 20 years at a whopping 62.2% ABV. You’ll have a very hard time getting hold of this bottle now – or need very deep pockets – but I got my hands on it via a raffle and poured it as the finale in my online...

Score 89/100

Mortlach 1991/2012 20 Year Old Signatory

Mortlach was the first distillery to be built in Dufftown, in 1823, by James Findlater. It was sold on to John Robertson in 1831, and during the following years ownership changed on several occasions and the distillery even was silent for a number of years. After it had been used as a brewery for a while, Mortlach was converted back into a...

Score 86/100

Mortlach 10 Year Old Premier Barrel Douglas Laing

To be honest, those little ceramic decanters from Douglas Laing do nothing for me, but apparently there is a market for them, for they appear on a very regular basis. Anyway, the contents of this one is a 10 years old Mortlach, but that is about all the info you get. No vintage, no bottling date… The only thing the label reveals is that it is a...

Score 77/100

Mortlach Gordon & MacPhail

Time to try this one: Mortlach 15yo Gordon & MacPhail, a bottle that is hard to find here in Belgium, but it can easily be found in a Tesco somewhere in the Highlands. I really liked its older brother, the famous 16yo Flora & Fauna, so let's wee how this one holds up. Nose: Malted barley, sherry, notes of milk and biscuits with a touch of...

Score 79/100