This bottle of Mortlach was bottled by Gordon & MacPhail on September 16, 2019 as a part of their Distillery Labels series. It is age stated at 25 years and is 43% ABV. It sells for around $300. This is my second bottle of Mortlach 25 year. I reviewed my first bottle in 2020 from a 2017 release, and it sounds like I quite liked it. Alas, I don’t remember if that bottle was also a sulfurous piece of shit like this bottle is, and I was just too enamored with the idea trying different single malts to care back then. Or perhaps Gordon & MacPhail doesn’t care and just puts whisky in rotten egg sherry casks occasionally instead of throwing those abominations out. Whatever the case, this bottle is not good. But I won’t give it a one-star rating because it does have some salvaging features. It is quite impressive in 2024 to still be charging $300 for a 25-year-old single malt from a popular distillery, and you can smell and taste the well-aged whisky here. There are rich notes of toffee and crystallized candied orange. There is also a good kind of sulfur in here that old Mortlachs sometimes display with distinction – a meaty, umami, shitake mushroom flavor that is rare in whisky. There is a good whisky in here, but it is just clobbered and maimed by some horrible sherry casks.