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
리필 아메리칸 호그스헤드에서 30년을 보낸 시간이 Mortlach 1988의 거친 윤곽을 부드럽게 다듬는다. 긴 숙성 동안 우드의 영향이 깊게 스며들어 마른 자두와 약한 가죽, 호두의 향이 먼저 드러나고, 입에는 흑설탕과 시나몬, 구운 견과의 풍미가 두꺼운 질감으로 흐른다. Mortlach 특유의 묵직한 미트한 본바디가 48.8도의 부드러운 강도에서 또렷이 살아난다. 짙은 호박빛이 잔에 머물고 여운은 흑설탕과 가죽이 입천장에 깊게 깃든다.
AITasting 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