Longmorn 15 Year Old 1996 Signatory

Longmorn SMWS 7.65 ‘A Balm for the Soul’

So, A Longmorn with a very enticing name : “A balm for the soul”. here’s to it delivering that promise… 2nd fill Sherry butt, and I am really looking forward to this one, since my experience with Longmorns is not vast to say the least. I need to try more. And here’s this one, and I have very good memories from the last one I reviewed here. Nose: A...

Score 90/100

Longmorn 1972 GM for LMdW, cask 1088

This Longmorn was put to sleep on a sherry cask as the color immediately points out. It was probably a first fill oloroso cask. It’s 34 years old when it’s bottled by independent bottler Gordon & Macphail for the reknowned French whiskyshop La Maison du Whisky. The outturn of this single cask, number 1088, was 607 bottles. The nose is a deep...

Score 91/100

Longmorn 16 Year Old 1996 Duncan Taylor Octave

The smaller the cask, the more intense the interation between the wood and the spirit. Logical. Duncan Taylor put this to the test with the The Octave Cask series. After a regular maturating in butts, they recasked the whisky in octaves, casks that are only one eight of the size of the butts. Duncan Taylor claims the whisky get a greater deapth...

Score 83/100

Longmorn 19 Year Old 1992 Archives

In the newest release from Archives, the bottlings from Whiskybase, you will also find a Longmorn. It matured for 19 years on a bourbon cask and was bottled at 48,5% ABV. Only 60 bottles. Where is the rest of the cask, I wonder. It is pretty light and rather mineral on the nose. Flints? Some fruit is trying to break through. Citrus, peach,...

Score 84/100