Mortlach 1938 Sherry Cask Bottled 1980s Gordon & Macphail

Mortlach 1989 Gordon & Macphail Shop Exclusive

This Mortlach can only be obtained in the shop in Elgin. It was bottled at 50% ABV and comes from one sherry cask that yielded a total of 282 bottles. It will set you back 130 quid, but then the stuff matured for a quarter of a century. If you know that Diageo just repositioned Mortlach as a luxury brand – with their official 25 Year Old fetching...

Score 90/100

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 16 Year Old

A couple of years ago, under the pretext of a conference in Edinburgh about Italian Literature, we bought this Mortlach, our very first bottle of whisky: since then, nothing has ever been the same. It seems that in his Whisky Bible Jim Murray is not so kind with Mortlachs, often alluding to the high regard that these whiskies have in the German...

Score 84/100

Mortlach 15 Year Old

I've been meaning to try Mortlach for some time.... this Gordon and Macphail 15 yo is outstanding, vanilla, fruit and light oak on the nose then the most delightful truffle-oil arrival, delicately smooth sherry fruitiness and light oak and hint of ginger finish.. I found myself cradling the glass without realizing it... like a long lost friend...

Score 99/100