Aug 2026In short · Mortlach (Speyside), 20 years, Fragrant & Floral.
“Down at the cricket field, things opened at first nosing with a bouquet of rose petals, peach blossom, and elderflower and meadowsweet liqueur.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 76.166 is a single cask of Mortlach, in the Speyside region, 20 years old, bottled at 50.9%, released in the Aug 2026 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.