Mortlach 1973 14 Year Old Sherry Cask Carato Sestante

Mortlach 16 Year Old

Nose: Big sherry, sweet tea and lemons, peppermint (specifically altoids), cinnamon, grapes, caramel. Taste: Sherry, rum raisin cake, maple syrup. Elegant. Finish: Sweet, spicy, and long. The very end of the finish gives me the feeling that I just finished a cigar. I've had tobacco notes turn up in whiskies before but this is especially...

Score 90/100

Mortlach 15 Year Old

After failing to act in time and buy this for $60 at Total Wine my curiosity got the best of me and I resorted to buying it for $80 at Hi Time Wine Cellars in Costa Mesa. This is the first Mortlach I've ever had. I've wanted to try it as I'd heard it was an above average Speyside and seeing as how it is hard to find outside Scotland I figured I...

Score 89/100

Mortlach 20 Year Old Cowie’s Blue Seal

The new 20 Year Old is dubbed Cowie’s Blue Seal, which is a reference to one of the former owners, who later became mayor of Dufftown and left the distillery to his son. Wonderfully aromatic nose on old, dusty books, a drop of blood, orange peel and a very delicate not of wild flowers, even some potpourri. Cocoa and dark caramel. On overripe fig....

Score 85/100

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