Mortlach reviews

Although the distillery is not mentioned on the label, it is a public secret that this is a Mortlach. Ian MacLeod has bottled a couple of these Speysiders under the ‘Cigar Malt’ banner – which made some…

This is, to my knowledge, my first re-review of a whisky from a single production line. Not only is it from the same batch, but also from the same bottle. I originally tried this in June 2014 and…

This is an older, official bottling from Mortlach, released in 2004. If you can find it today, you will have to cough up some 1.200 to 1.600 EUR to add it to your cabinet. Hence I am happy to say that…

Today’s official Mortlach 25 Year Old will set you back about 600 to 800 EUR for 50cl. Luckily the independent bottlers have not lost their mind (yet) and therefor you can buy this bottle – if you can…

Jonny is a whiskybuddy that I met several months ago at a tasting that I hosted in Antwerp. Since then, we have exchanged a couple of drams. But when Jonny presented me with ‘his’ Mortlach, I gladly…

One of my drinking buddies remarked once that Mortlach always reminded him of a good lamb stew. A couple of years ago I was perusing the shelves of a Connecticut liquor store and came across this bottle…

I was incredibly lucky to come to one Moscow whisky event where one of the guests recommended that I try this rare whisky which there were only 242 bottles of in the entire world! Cask strength (58,1%…

I've always heard a lot of hype surrounding these older cs releases of Signatory Mortlach, so for Christmas, I decided to order a sample from Master of Malt. Here are my thoughts on this particular batch…

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…

This is an 18 year old Mortlach from a refill sherry butt distilled on July 19, 1995 and is one out of 586 bottles. SMWS USA sold it for $155.In color, light amber. This one was a challenge to appreciate…