Mortlach reviews

The Beast of Dufftown under a full moon becomes 'The Moonlit Beast'. Although we know Mortlach mainly because of its umami character and mostly sherry maturation, this one is special because it held…

I must confess, the first time I tried this Mortlach, I was not very impressed. The second time was much better, but I still was not convinced. I’m writing these notes during the third round (luckily I…

Ah… a golden oldie from the Rare Malts Selection, longer in the bottle by now than it ever spent in the cask. Distilled in 1978 and bottled after 20 years at a whopping 62.2% ABV. You’ll have a very hard…

This suspciously pale Mortlach from Signatory – in their Cask Strength Collection with those mighty decanters – was bottled from a sherry butt. I presume it was a refill sherry cask. No less than 639…

The boys and girls of BYOB-C (Bring Your Own Bottle Club from Belgium) have quite a few releases on their resumé. There is the Lads of Lobland series, the ongoing Mobsters on Mopeds and the Bearded…

It had been a very long time since I had tasted this classic. And I found out that I had not even written about it so far. Well, time to correct that. This Mortlach appeared on the market for the very…

Originally the 14 years old Alexander’s Way – which refers to the fiendishly complicated process of 2.81x distilled that creates that typical umami spirit that Mortlach is known for – was only available…

If you’ve ever done a warehouse tasting at Cadenhead’s (meaning Springbank), knows that they have quite a few gems there that you can bottle directly from the cask. This is one of those typical Cask Ends…

Well, look at that. A Mortlach that matured on a sherry cask for no less than 23 years and then yielded 610 bottles at almost 57%. It was chosen by Lorne MacKillop, whose roots actually go back to Clan…

The motto of C&S Dram Collection’s owner Andrea Caminneci is ‘If I like the whisky and the price is right, I will bottle it’. I will be putting two Mortlach he selected head to head: this 14 Year Old…