Mortlach 14 Year Old Independent Bottling

Mortlach 26 Year Old Diageo Special Releases 2019

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 ridiculously high prices. Big mistake and the bottles gathered dust on the shelves. It took until 2018 until the range was re-invented once again...

Score 89/100

Mortlach 17 Year Old 1995 Asta Morris

I have long known the Belgian whiskyclub Fulldram to have good taste. Their four previous club bottling (Littlemill 1990, Auchentoshan 1999, Bowmore 1999 and Tomatin 1976) were all gems in their own right. For their fifth bottling, they gave Bert Bruyneel the assignment to look for an exceptional cask. Which he did. It was bottled under his Asta...

Score 86/100

Mortlach 1988 19 Year Old

I love my Mortlach's and thought I would give this rare Douglas and Laing bottling a try. Actually distilled in 1989 and bottled in 2008 (officially 19yo) making it at opening today a fine 23 years old. Non Chill-filtered and no added colouring, this bottling is a single cask offering finished in a Rhone wine cask producing 369 bottles at 50% abv...

Score 87/100

Mortlach 14 Year Old 1998 C&S Dram Collection

The German C&S Dram Collection is the brainchild of Andrea Caminneci. I will be putting two Mortlach he selected head to head: this 14 Year Old from 1998 (bottled in 2013) against a 16 Year Old from 1995 (bottled in 2011). The cask numbers are 3805 and 3398 respectively. A little H2H experiment. The difference in color is huge. Let’s start...

Score 85/100