Mortlach Celtic Label 15 Year Old, Sherry Cask, 1969, Gordon & MacPhail, 56.3%

Name: Mortlach Celtic Label 15 Year Old, Sherry Cask, 1969, Gordon & MacPhail, 56.3%
Brand: Mortlach
Rating: 88 (1 reviews)

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NOTE : The entire seal of this bottle has been coated in clear wax. A heavyweight Speyside malt distillery that is home to Scotland's most complex distillation regime. Famously distilling its spirit 2.81 times, its whisky is synonymous with the Johnnie Walker blends and beloved as a single malt, particularly when sherry cask-aged. Perhaps one of Scotland's most important whisky companies, Gordon & ...

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Type: Single Malt Whisky
Region: Speyside
Age: 15 Years
Vintage: 1969
Bottled: 1984
ABV: 56.3%
Volume: 75cl
Distillery: Mortlach
Origin: Scotland

Cask type: Sherry Cask
Bottling: Independent Bottling - Gordon & MacPhail
Peated: Unpeated
Single cask: No
Non-chill filtered: N.A
Cask origin: N.A
Cask no.: N.A
Batch: N.A
PPM: N.A
Barley: N.A
Fermentation: N.A
Master distiller (bottling): N.A
Master distiller (distillation): N.A

Limited edition: No
Bottle count: N.A
Has box: No
Closure: Wax
Presentation: Wax seal
Series highlights: Celtic Label
Historical context: N.A
Special release: Italian Market Allocation
Allocation: Italy

Nose: slightly milky, resinous and richly honeyed with a faint industrial coal note and a beautiful elegant old style minerality that's intertwined and enveloped throughout as well. It unfolds beautifully with a dense gloopy waxiness, candied tropical fruit, dried mango, honeydew, damp hay, yogurt and rich honey tones that build in the glass and get rather immense as it opens up with air. Stunning development. It's balanced by a lightly phenolic side with propolis, sweet petrol, granite, limestone and unlit coal.
Palate: big and oily with Candied tropical fruits, turmeric, old leather, lactic notes, light hay and some whiffs of sherry rancio. Molasses and light pine develop into the finish with more tropical fruit as well with the light mango yogurt note being rather surprising and really appealing to me.
Finish: Molasses and light pine develop into the finish with more tropical fruit as well with the light mango yogurt note being rather surprising and really appealing to me.

88 / 100 · Based on 1 published review.

Ssilver.fox19 May

88 / 100

The small whiffs of sherry rancio sit alongside a much broader mix of tropical fruit, honey, waxiness and resinous notes. That sounds intriguing, though the character described here doesn’t come across as clearly oak-led; the cask influence feels like one part of a more varied picture. The oily palate and the shift toward molasses and pine give the notes a satisfying sense of development. I’d have liked more direct evidence of oak to judge that side of the whisky, but the contrast itself is appealing.

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