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Longmorn 15 Year Old

The Longmorn 15 has something of a cult following ever since the distillery did away with their 15 year old in favour of a 16 year old. I’ve never tried the 16 yo, but I’m told by more than a few people that it’s a lesser whisky. Now the 15 is already phased out completely, so it’s only through good luck that my friend happened upon a bottle of 15...

Score 88/100

Longmorn 9 Year Old 2010 Hart Brothers

This Longmorn was bottled last year by Hart Brothers. It’s a young malt, at cask strength, that was finished on a Marsala wine cask. The nose is pretty shy. It takes a while before it offers some strawberry and melon, sprinkled with icing sugar and wet wood. Becomes sweeter after it has breathed somewhat. So sweet in fact, that it turns a bit...

Score 84/100

Longmorn SMWS 7.65 - A Balm for the Soul

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society bottled this 21 Year Old Longmorn at cask strength, from a refill sherry butt, that was put to sleep in December 1989. The description says A Balm for the Soul. That sounds very promising, indeed. The nose is amazingly complex and inviting. Nuts, both roasted and sugared, fresh figs, all of this doused in something...

Score 90/100

Longmorn-Glenlivet 1971

This Longmorn was also bottled by Gordon & Macphail – albeit at 40% instead of 43%, as was the 30 Year Old – and taken from refill sherry casks. Both bottled look very much the same and the spirit is from 1971. I expected them to be very similar. The color is near identical. On the nose, this is quite different from the three years younger...

Score 87/100