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| Hello, that is one among our (virtually) every day tastings. Santé! |
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October 28, 2021
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Particular Releases (and Halloween) Particular,
right this moment the Mortlach
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The Beast of Dufftown and its Wee Witchie on the tasting desk once more! However let’s first discover slightly apéritif al pure, for those who do not thoughts…
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| Mortlach’s low wines nonetheless No.1 A.Ok.A. The Wee Witchie, the smallest spirit nonetheless amongst 3 of them, which takes the tails from wash stills No.1 and No. 2. A.F.A.I.Ok. (Diageo) -> |
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Mortlach 10 yo 2009/2019 (57.6%, Van Wees, The Final, hogshead, cask #301453, 304 bottles) 
Color: pale white wine. Nostril: it’s a kind of extraordinarily chalky Mortlachs, stuffed with ashes, chalk certainly, scoria, concrete mud, flints, gunpowder… Some porridge too. Reasonably for die-hard whisky lovers which are (additionally) into ascetism, I might say. With water: some paraffin, plasticine, carbon mud, sourdough, grass juice… Mouth (neat): unusually salty, ueber-grassy, peppery, austere. Lemon skins. Briefly, extra ascetism. With water: sweeter and fruitier however reasonably all on lemon drops and white peaches. Every kind of peppers roaring within the background. End: lengthy, sharp, peppery and grassy. A little bit sugarcane syrup and limoncello within the aftertaste (hurray!) Feedback: jogs my memory a bit right here and there of the primary file by La Monte Younger that I ever purchased. The primary distinction being that so far as I can keep in mind, I by no means purchased some other file by La Monte Younger.
SGP:371 – 83 factors. |
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Mortlach 13 yo ‘The Moonlit Beast’ (55.9%, OB, Particular Launch 2021, Untold Legends) 
Ex-virgin and refill American oak. As a matter of reality, and you can not make this up, I simply slept ‘with’ a pack of European gray wolves in a powerful lodge in Lorraine. Great animals however boy are they noisy at night time! Color: white wine. Nostril: one other one which’s fairly sharp and austere at first, chalky, waxy, grassy, the principle distinction being that many extra fruits would then come out, mainly white and yellow peaches, then muesli and one thing like rhubarb jam. I might suppose it is the virgin oak that imparted extra ‘sweetness’. With water: porridge, damp oatcakes and plain sourdough. Uncooked wool. Gone are the fruits. Mouth (neat): as soon as once more, similar type as that of the Final, solely with extra fruitiness, on this very case extra lemons. With water: excellent now, tight for certain however with plenty of lemon, gooseberries, inexperienced plums and rhubarb, plus slightly muscovado sugar to spherical this off. Nonetheless, great tightness. End: lengthy, grassier, with notes of inexperienced tea and walnut skins. Loses part of its fruitiness. Chalky aftertaste. Feedback: showcase dry un-sherried and un-meaty Mortlach.
SGP:561 – 86 factors. |
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Let’s make this a trio, with an outdated sherried one…
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Mortlach 31 yo 1987/2018 (54%, Gordon & MacPhail, Connoisseurs Alternative, refill sherry hogshead, batch #18/061, 200 bottles) 
Color: darkish amber. Nostril: Mortlach as most of us understand it, that’s to say with slightly gunpowder and even struck matches, plus savoury notes, a fatness, some espresso and a few chocolate, slightly glutamate, and one thing barely metallic, round outdated copper cash. Actually, seems like residence to many older whisky lovers – and the alternative of recent bourbonised malts. With water: marrow soup, dried porcinis, cigars, umami sauce, crude chocolate, prunes, hoisin sauce… I am certain you possibly can quaff this with Peking duck. Mouth (neat): splendid old-skool sherried Mortlach, which is fairly old-G&M too, I might add. Gorgeous uncooked espresso beans and black chocolate, with a drop of Worcester sauce, Bovril, and simply bits of pipe tobacco. Very tertiary. With water: salt, bouillon, outdated walnuts, fino sherry, black pepper, correct espresso, extra chocolate, a wee spoonful of onion soup… End: lengthy and certainly splendid, with a couple of larger notes, maybe wild strawberries, pomegranates, ganache… All that mingled with some excellent chocolate. Espresso-y aftertaste. Feedback: extraordinarily and authentically Jerezian. Gorgeous outdated Mortlach by a few of the greatest Mortlach specialists.
SGP:562 – 91 factors. |
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