Jan-Case
Mortlach 15 Year Distillery Labels (Gordon & MacPhail)
Single Malt — Speyside, Scotland
Reviewed
May 27, 2020
Very intense and rich nose with a lot of green fruits, raisins, green banana - quite intense for a Speysider.
The palate is equally intense. Again lots of raisins and dried fruits along fresh and sour fruits. After some sips the oak from the casks really start to introduce bitter tannins and a bid of vanilla along a good bunch of herbs.
It is deep and rich and definitely a well crafted whisky but doesn’t really fit in a spot where I can get to like it.
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@cascode @Soba45 this one is a 50ml miniature which I only half-emptied. You think it would still improve over time (because it doesn’t have a cork).
@cascode Yes time open definitely makes this one. One of my top Mortlachs i've tasted after the 25 yr (Adelphi) and 1971 G&M
Get the level down to the shoulder and then let it oxidise for a month. I found the tannins softened a lot once it had time to breathe. This is also a contract IB release (and so virtually a core range expression) but there is batch variance. I enjoyed a bottle I had of this in 2017 so much I bought 2 more from that batch to go into my retirement stash.