Mortlach 1936 Gordon & Macphail

Mortlach 18 Year Old

Mortlach’s new 18 Year Old is quite different from the Rare Old and the 25 Year Old, expect for the fact that it is terribly expensive. 250 EUR for a 50cl bottle? That translates into 350 EUR for a full bottle. Not cheap at all. But let us make abstraction of the price. After all, Mortlach is now being pushed as a luxury malt. So let us not dwell...

Score 86/100

Mortlach 19 Year Old 1997 Brachadair

Brachadair is actually Gaelic for maltman or brewster, derived from the Latin brasiator. Just a little side note. Patrick and his Brachadair team bottled a great cask of Mortlach 1997 at a whopping 54,3%. It was distilled in June 1997 and bottled in July 2016, so a full 19 years old. Wow, this is a dark Mortlach. Dark in the sense that it offers a...

Score 89/100

Mortlach Wemyss 1998 15YO "Pastille Bouquet"

This is rather obscure bottling of a slightly obscure yet vastly underrated (IMO) distillery. But it ticks all the right boxes - Single Cask, uncoloured, unchillfiltered. Nose - Definitely fruity at first with some oaky vanilla and a touch of spices. Cinnamon maybe. Dry oakiness becoming more apparent as it opens up. A bit of citrus after more...

Score 87/100

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