Mortlach 10 Year Old 2008 Old Particular Douglas Laing

Refill Wine Cask #DL12757, 297 bts Kleur: goud ABV: 48.4% FOTO Moccasins

After my quite mediocre experience with the Mortlach 10 in the Premier Barrel series from Douglas Laing, let me try a similarly aged Mortlach that was released two years ago in the so-called Old Particular range. A wine cask, no less.

Lo and behold: this is interesting! Very creamy on red berries, mildly sour notes of candied mandarin and gooseberry, strawberry and flowery honey. Some sweet barley sugars and an olive that took a wrong turn along the way. Baker’s spices, nutmeg, oak, maraschino cherry, new moccasins. I’m a fan!

Lovely creamy body and immediately invitingly sweet and almost piquant. Nutmeg and chili pepper precede red fruit and vanilla. Midpalate the typical umami note appears that we all love and is so typical for Mortlach. And the strength is perfect. This is very enjoyable.

In the medium long finish the sweetness turns into rather piquant and drying oak. Now you can really taste the wine, but it give this malt something extra.

Nicely balanced and interesting Mortlach that really gets something extra from the wine cask. This is no gimmick. I’m impressed.

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