7,000+ Whiskey Database
Nose
Red apple, warming spice notes before hints of toffee apple, wood spice and ripe cranberry
Taste
Fresh fruit & creamy vanilla, woody, aromatic spice combining with a hints of cinnamon and a warming woodiness
Finish
Lingering vanilla, spicem and dark chocolate
Nose
Raw Vanilla, Honey, Beeswax, Paraffin, Crayons, Shortbread, Cookie Crumbs, Sawdust, Pencil Shavings, Graphite
Taste
Honey, Hot Paraffin Wax, Delicate Minerality, Olive Oil, Rendered Fat, Crystalized Honey, Sulfur/Earthy Dirty Mushrooms, Tannic Oak
Finish
Long,Sulfur, Thick Vanilla, Molten Wax, Cardboard, Olive Oil, Mushrooms
Liquor
Mortlach 15yo (Gordon & MacPhail)
Type
ABV
43%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Malt, orchard fruit, vanilla taffy, sherry, orange peel, toffee and some nuts, spice and dark fruit.
Taste
Cocoa, earthy malt, vanilla, toffee, sherry, citrus, olde taffy and a bit of honey, graham and strawberry Pop-Tarts.
Finish
Long -> Honey and strawberry Pop-Tarts
Nose
raisins, oozing apple pies, dark fruitcake ,dried fruit, dark sugars and rich spice.
Taste
Rich and thick, with brown sugar syrup, dried raisins, apples, crunchy pears, dark oloroso notes
Finish
Mint and menthol fade to chocolate raisins. A menthol tingle lingers.
Nose
Bold and complex. Stewed black orchard fruits with earthiness and spice.
Taste
Robust and full palate-coating texture. Light, leathery spiciness, notes of apricot and honey. Sweet and savory with a dark, full, and rounded intensity.
Finish
Long and complex with a surprising sweetening.
Liquor
Mortlach 16 Alexander Murray & Co.
Type
ABV
40%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Tannic, slightly acidic oak, tart, like apple cider vinegar, dried apple slices, fresh hay, and a faint charry smokiness.
Taste
Texturally heavy, not quite oily, toasty grains, cashew butter, more dried apple and dusty orange peel.
Finish
Warming; medium length. Roasted nuts, spun sugar, fading without bitterness.
Liquor
Mortlach 16 Flora & Fauna
Type
ABV
43.4%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Sulfur, white and white, grape-flavored herbs common in Cognac, oak, leather, longan.
Taste
Red dates, old leather, herbs, bitter, pits, nuts, oak.
Finish
Medium, woody bitter, pitted.
Liquor
Mortlach 16 Sherry Finish
Type
ABV
46.3%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Floral, fresh-cut grass, cherry, sherry, almond
Taste
Bubblegum, cherry
Finish
Cherry, banana, lemon zest
Liquor
Mortlach 16 Signatory 2008
Type
ABV
43.4%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Brown sugar, fried banana fritters, syrup and hot fudge.
Taste
Molasses, polished leather, fruit mince and earthiness.
Finish
Strathmill and fress sherry
Nose
Beef and gravy, with a little horseradish and soy sauce.
Taste
Chewy, beefy and georgeous
Finish
Salty, sherbet, long and yummy.
Nose
Gingersnaps and orange peel, with hints of roast chestnut, apple and blackcurrant pie and quince.
Taste
Mature oak from the outset, joined by prune, clove, macadamia nut and a slight touch of baked earth.
Finish
Lingering oily walnut and chewy raisin notes. More ginger appears later on.
Nose
Sweet sherry, sweet honey and some citrus.
Taste
Dry, Spicy Sherry, Oak flavors reveals honey and some vanilla.
Finish
Medium Mild sweet oak.