Mortlach reviews

Mortlach – The Beast of Dufftown – has had quite a few tough years. After many years with only the 16 years old in the Fauna & Flora series, the malt was suddenly re-launched as a premium brand with…

This release from the Italian bottler Wilson & Morgan is a Mortlach that got a finish of 18 months on a Marsala cask (after a regular maturation on bourbon cask). It was bottled in their famous ‘Barrel…

Silver Seal is an Italian independent bottler with an ironclad reputation. I have tried quite a few of their releases and Massimo Righi – I am allowed to call him Max – surely knows how to select good…

Independent bottler Adelphi – which also owns the fairly new Ardnamurchan distillery – likes to bottle single casks at cask strength. This is one of those, from the Beast of Dufftown. This Mortlach 1987…

Gordon & Macphail – one of the leading bottlers of Scotland – has a huge stock of Mortlach casks. They started filling them very early on. Remember the Mortlach 70 Year Old that appeared in their Gene…

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…

This 16 Year Old – dubbed the Distiller’s Dram – should make us forget the 16 years old from the Flora & Fauna series. That will not be easy, as that was a top dram. This new one is likewise matured on…

For years Mortlach was only available as a 16 Year old in the Flora & Fauna series, but in 2015 Diageo decided to ‘premiumise’ the brand. It was replaced by a NAS (Rare Old), and 18 and 25 years old, but…

Mortlach is one of those Diageo stepchild distilleries that was used mainly as blend fodder, for years it had no regular output under its name save one lonely 16 year old Flora & Fauna release. It gained…

I got this bottle at the airport during a recent business trip to London. It is one of the four new Mortlach expressions introduced by Diageo in 2018, with this 14-year old being available only through…