Mortlach 1988 GM Connoisseurs Choice - Cask Strength
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Mortlach |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1988 |
| Bottled Year | 2021 |
| Age | 30년 |
| Cask Type | Refill American Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 48.8% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
this one’s got a side that we haven’t really found in all the other Mortlachs that we’ve just tried: some meatiness. Wondering, by the way, if they haven’t dropped that part in the distillate since the very early 1990s. Pure speculations… So overripe apples, Grisons meat, touches of sulphur (candles, not quite matches), butter cream, vanilla, fudge, menthol… It is a pretty different nose, but that may also come from some more active wood. With water: butter and gas, then olive oil. Love love love olive oil
restaurant Palate
extremely good, it’s just that this kind of amount of (good) oakiness is a little harder to enjoy after a good deal of all-natural malts. Butter, brioche, Jaffa cakes, candied clementines (they say clementines have disappeared and have been replaced with further hybrids, is that right?), smoked salmon, green liquorice… With water: extremely Mortlach, sulphury in a good way, meaty, roasted, even coffee-ish. Flora & Fauna, anyone?
timer Finish
long and grassier. You could almost feel a little methanol, or at least foreshots, but that’s most certainly my mind playing tricks on me. Happens often. Yes I’ve tried many a foreshot
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