Mortlach 22 Year Old 1989 The Octave Duncan Taylor

Mortlach 12 Year Old The Wee Witchie

For years Mortlach was only available as a 16 Year old in the Flora & Fauna series, but in 2015 Diageo decided to ‘premiumise’ the brand. It was replaced by a NAS (Rare Old), and 18 and 25 years old, but the prices were so high that the bottles gathered dust on the shelves. So Diageo rethought their strategy and replaced the core range once...

Score 84/100

Mortlach 13 Year Old 1997 Silver Seal

Silver Seal is an Italian independent bottler with an ironclad reputation. I have tried quite a few of their releases and Massimo Righi – I am allowed to call him Max – surely knows how to select good casks. Almost ten years ago, he offered this Mortlach 1997. So it’s only 13 years old, but still has an ABV of over 60%. Oh, that color! This might...

Score 87/100

Mortlach 1971 32 Year Old

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 my Dutch whiskybuddy Marcel sent me a sample. Very generous indeed! Wonderfully delicate and quite floral nose (not soapy, mind you!) with some...

Score 93/100

Mortlach SMWS 75.82 Gunpowder Green and lava rock

I've been working my way through my Society sample bottles that I received when I joined The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. I'd started with the Campbeltown, then the Islay. That left me with two Speysides. A fifteen year old and a twenty-one year old. The Speyside I decided to crack open was the fifteen year old. I pulled up the Society's handy...

Score 88/100