Mortlach 1989 19 Year Old Rhone Cask #4561 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

Mortlach 16 Year Old 1997 Sansibar

Sansibar is a German independent bottler, run by Jens Drewitz. They only recently got on my radar when visiting the Whisky Festival for Independent Bottlers in Alost, Belgium. What did you expect? They have not yet bottled an Auchentoshan after all. Just kidding. Their range consists of some nice single casks at cask strength. I am trying their 16...

Score 83/100

Mortlach 18

After tasting the very impressive mortlach 25, I now get the chance to review the little sister, this 18yo is a mixture of American oak and European sherry casks, both first fill and re fill casks were used. This is a 50cl bottle and has an abv of 43.4%… Nose.. At first it is a little underwhelming, not the nose I expected….. BUT.. wait 10 minutes...

Score 86/100

Mortlach 15 Year Old SMWS 76.83

This Mortlach was distilled in November 1995 and matured on a first fill sherry butt. It was bottled by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, a club that aims to bottle only exceptionale good (their words, not mine) single casks at cask strength. Again a somewhat weird nose, I must say. Loads of earth, new leather and something sourish that overpower...

Score 75/100

Mortlach SMWS 76.79 Sherry Fusion

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society is world famous, and has a huge membership, however I only really found out about this a month or so back. I was at the SMWS rooms in London as part of a tasting panel, and could not believe what was right in front of me! I wont explain what the SMWS is, most of you know already I’m sure! Anyway after the tasting...

Score 96/100