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| Hello, that is one among our (nearly) every day tastings. Santé! |
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January 7, 2025
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A bag of Longmorn, randomly, Half Dos
We’re again. Wow that new 30/1994 ‘Rothes Glen’ yesterday!
Goldrush apple (Pour de Bon)
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Longmorn 15 yo (54.2%, Morisco Spirits, first fill bourbon, 2022) 
Color: white wine. Nostril: this shall be fast—ultra-precise, inexperienced apple and damp chalk, with a contact of honeysuckle. It’s paying homage to a cool-vintage Sancerre (they’re getting uncommon) from Vacheron. With water: quinces and mirabelles seem, but it stays properly centered. Mouth (neat): splendidly fruity and totally typical. Lemon, inexperienced apples, inexperienced pepper. One other fantastically pure malt with sharper angles. With water: it turns barely softer, with apple juice, cinnamon and a touch of barley sugar. End: medium size, very clear, with that signature fruitiness and a barely extra peppery aftertaste. Feedback: stunning in its simplicity.
SGP:551 – 86 factors. |
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Longmorn 13 yo 2011/2024 (58.2%, Girl of the Glen, PX end, cask #1721, 297 bottles)
Effectively, I’ve simply learnt that in pharmacy, PX can generally be shorthand for ‘prescription’, however can something be inferred from this within the realm of whisky? Color: deep gold. Nostril: complete butterscotch, walnut cake and cinnamon rolls. Good prescription. With water: few modifications, in all probability just a bit Bénédictine. Outdated bottles of Bénédictine may be completely excellent. A contact of good-quality black tea. Mouth (neat): certainly, thick PX however PX that works—candy however not overly so, with peppered raisins and loads of cloves. Even a touch of chilli. With water: softer, rounder, however Spanish orange liqueurs step in to maintain all of it in examine. End: lengthy, on sultanas, orange marmalade and pepper. Feedback: about pretty much as good as a PX end on a younger Speysider may be.
SGP:661 – 85 factors. |
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Longmorn 22 yo 1997/2020 (58.7%, The Single Malts of Scotland, hogshead, cask #163301, 240 bottles)
My phrase, 2020 was already 5 years in the past. Color: white wine. Nostril: it’s exceptional how a very good age—22 years is definitely a very good age—brings complexity and begins to deconstruct main aromas. Right here we’re shifting in direction of layers of pastries, apple tarts, turnovers, strudel, with hints of vanilla pods and honeysuckle… Ultimately, we land on apple compote, the sort all of us ate by the ton as youngsters, didn’t we? With water: contemporary barley emerges, which is amusing. It’s not the primary time this has occurred with these Longmorns. Mouth (neat): oh, citrus, pepper and mint! Although the alcohol does block issues only a bit. With water: and there it’s—a cavalcade of ripe orchard fruits, joined by lemon, grapefruit, aniseed and liquorice. End: pretty lengthy, with comparable notes. A really citrusy aftertaste. Feedback: for lovers of grapefruit, amongst whom I’m counting myself.
SGP:651 – 87 factors. |
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Longmorn 22 yo 1992/2014 (51.4%, Signatory Classic, handpicked by The Whisky Change, hogshead, cask #48488, 224 bottles) 
Consideration, we’re diving into this one with all sirens blaring! These 1992s from SigV had been absolute bombs. Color: deep gold. Nostril: beautiful nostril—tobacco, roasted chestnuts, and so forth.—however you’ll be able to already inform the magic will occur on the palate. With water: a slight basaltic fringe of the best type, adopted by hints of varnish, like in a really outdated Sauternes turned mahogany. Mosses and mushrooms. Excellent nostril. Mouth (neat): the purest expression of bitter orange, with an added amontillado-like word. Was this a sherry hogshead? But there are additionally touches of outdated bourbon. By no means thoughts, not so way back no person cared about such particulars—it was both sherrywood or the whole lot else. Or maybe simply ‘American’ or ‘European’. With water: splendid. Let’s name it American amontillado (apologies, apologies, apologies). End: lengthy, leaning extra in direction of earthy tones and low. Espresso dregs—however what a espresso it was. Feedback: licking the sting of 91 factors, as we generally say.
SGP:562 – 90 factors. |
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Longmorn 24 yo 1983/2007 (51.6%, Riegger’s Choice, hogshead, cask #51)
I’m sorry, no picture discovered, besides maybe of a comparable bottle. 2007—these had been the nice outdated days when not everybody was obsessive about flooding the web with content material of questionable necessity. Color: deep gold. Nostril: beautiful nostril of orange liqueur, sultanas and outdated natural liqueurs. A shocking mixture of pine and mint on prime of all of it—extremely invigorating—with hints of verbena and chartreuse. With water: oh, all these honeys, how stunning! Mouth: however that is so good! I can’t say if it was already this excellent again in 2007, however this type of mix of high-quality liqueurs with figs and dates works wonders. With water: marvellous—extra mineral and waxier. This two jogs my memory of Clynelish—we’ve had some elegant Clynelish 1983s, together with one from Samaroli. End: reasonably lengthy, clean, leaning in direction of roasted hazelnuts and outdated Madeiras, with a splendidly natural aftertaste. Feedback: thanks, Roger—18 years later (higher late than by no means, I suppose). If anybody nonetheless has bottles of this little marvel, take excellent care of them!
SGP:661 – 91 factors.
UPDATE Wee image has been changed, thanks Tom! |
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Longmorn-Glenlivet 1969/1991 (43%, Berry Bros. & Rudd Glasgow)
Straight from Dunreath Avenue, Glasgow, however with the label ‘3, St. James’s St., London’. Already a 70cl bottle, but nonetheless bearing BB&R’s outdated presentation, together with a well-made screw cap. Color: copper honey. Nostril: let’s not waste time—that is pure marvel, the sort solely the Fifties or Nineteen Sixties may produce. Astonishing honeys, ripe apples, cherries, pollen, winery peaches, incense, outdated cognacs, then camphor and even just a few maritime touches. This whisky is the boss, not you. Mouth: sheer class. Mandarins, wild strawberries, outdated yellow chartreuse, extra honeys, a drop of pine liqueur, fruit ganaches, and—dare I say it?—two or three drops of moutai. Go on, one, two, three, and-we-bow. End: unbelievably lengthy for a whisky at 43% from a bottle that’s already thirty-four years outdated. However let’s not neglect this Longmorn was solely 21 or 22 years outdated when bottled. There’s only a contact an excessive amount of leather-based within the aftertaste to achieve 93. There’s additionally a touch of salty/smoky broth—surprising, however maybe not that a lot. Feedback: what a magnificence, nonetheless bursting with vitality.
SGP:661 – 92 factors. |
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There we have now it, one other session-breaker. It appears to be like like we’ll want to come back again a 3rd time with some extra Longmorns.
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(Thanks, Geert, thanks Roger)
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