Sold outOct 2021In short · Mortlach (Speyside), 32 years.
“Limited to 1 bottle per member Imagine a grilled tuna steak marinated in soy sauce, orange juice, olive oil and garlic followed by roasted figs with honey and Marsala…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 76.147 is a single cask of Mortlach, in the Speyside region, 32 years old, bottled at 49.8%, released in the Oct 2021 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 76.x is from Mortlach.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
The first legal still in Dufftown, lit in 1823, Mortlach is known simply as the Beast, a dark, meaty, muscular whisky conjured by a fiendish part-triple distillation its makers call 2.81 times and by old worm tubs that will not give up their sulphur. Not a beauty; a force. Diageo's.