Revisiting Glen Mhor

Glen Mhor 1979/2004 (43%, Gordon & MacPhail)
Color: gold. Nostril: hohoho, porridge with a midgie’s teaspoon of honey run by means of it. Additionally sheep wool, recent laundry, putty, wooden glue, plasticine and a few humorous mixture of outdated camphor and off tea. Extremely unlikely however not essentially ‘dangerous’. Mouth: okay, right here I battle. Very flat, a lot of clay, some skimmed milk, stale beer, outdated bread. Being trustworthy, it’s not so good now. End: brief, teaish, some cardboard and fleeting impressions of rice wine. Feedback: the one method is up! However severely, an excellent benchmark for the way humorous and unlikely these 70s and 80s Glen Mhor could possibly be.
 SGP: 441 – 77 factors.

Glen Mhor 21 yo 1976/1997 (43%, Hart Bros)
Color: pale gold. Nostril: very related in some respects with these humorous low-lying mineral qualities, clay, putty, barely cardboardy and porridge vibes, however right here there’s additionally some good inexperienced apple notes, flower nectars and vase water. General, a bit extra ‘classical’, so far as Scotch whisky goes. Mouth: okay, textbook grit, gravel, chalk, aspirin, concrete. Like ingesting a tower block. Additionally fairly a robust plasticine and even vinyl aspect. Flirts with cleaning soap at occasions too. End: medium, sappy, sharp, barely acidic and tangy. Will get virtually aggressively peppery after some time. Very humorous! Feedback: completely a bottling that demonstrates what made Glen Mhor such a brutalistic and difficult whisky. A whisky virtually tailor made for whisky geeks to pour blind for his or her fellow fanatics on the outset of a dramming session. Another level for the apples! 
SGP: 251 – 78 factors. 

Glen Mhor 8 yo (57%, Gordon & MacPhail ‘Distillery labels’, Eighties)
Extra energy, fewer years… Color: gold. Nostril: that is nonetheless very brutalistic and fairly austere, nevertheless it comes with a cereal spine and sense of dusty waxiness that I discover fairly interesting. The porridge can be again, this time with a sprinkle of salt. Then it actually begins to develop with lamp oil, animal fat, rye bread, stout, rooster broth, lanolin and coal scuttle. Additionally extra of those humorous ‘Mhor-esque’ mineral touches that make you consider gravel and plasticine, however right here they’re extra managed and refined. With water: ever so barely tamer, with some refined honey, wooden spices, calmly smoked teas, newspaper ink and mashed potato. Mouth: that is fairly good, there’s clearly some sherry at play, nevertheless it appears to solely contribute to and amplify this brutality and austerity. It’s very lean, mineral and sharp in profile. Medicines, vapour rubs, tar, ham, pasta water, salt baked greens and bouillon powder. With water: at its finest I might say, lean, bone dry, filled with brittle waxes, peppery heat, dusty outdated dried herbs, camphor and a rising tang of farmyard. End: actually fairly lengthy, nonetheless fairly fantastically peppery, filled with camphor, dry waxes, lamp oil once more, toolbox cloths and issues like white mushroom, petrichor impressions and moist, mossy bark. Feedback: hip flask whisky for dour teuchter farmers that personal greater than 5 tractors (solely two working). Severely, I might say that is the nice aspect of Glen Mhor, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a complete beast of a dram. Nothing exists at present with this sort of profile in my expertise. 
SGP: 372 – 86 factors. 

Glen Mhor 30 yo 1982/2012 (54.1%, Cadenhead ‘Closed Distilleries’, bourbon, 198 bottles)
Color: gold. Nostril: I get pleasure from this much more. Thick, syrupy waxes, cooking oils, bone marrow on brown bread, lower grass and crushed flower stems that make me consider chlorophyll. Additionally, vase water, tiger balm and soot. A glimmer of mead within the background too. With water: vase water, oat milk, plain crackers and… a kiss of silage! Mouth: aaaaand, we’re again! Plasticine, camphor, barely stale however salty butter, extra bone marrow, suet, bouillon, crushed parsley, mashed parsnip and yeasty sourdough. Citric acidity, low mendacity waxes, extra cooking oils and a few paraffin. With water: sharp inexperienced apple, extra fruit acids, will get tighter, sharper and customarily extra nervous. Outdated olive oil, lemon balm, chalk and aspirin. Can Glen Mhor treatment its personal complications? Feedback: I imagine Glen Mhor could possess the ability to kindle masochism, as a result of I fairly get pleasure from this one. Now, technically talking, it’s nonetheless in every single place, however the enjoyable issue may be very excessive. 
SGP: 362 – 81 factors. 

Glen Mhor 30 yo 1975/2005 (51.2%, Glenkeir Treasures, 270 bottles)
This bottling collection actually takes me again to being at Uni in Glasgow from 2003-2007 (Movie & TV research, in case you have been asking). Color: shiny straw. Nostril: farmyard cider, wee inflections of silage, smoked teas and smoked beers, coal scuttle and a slowly rising waxy aspect. Additionally extra of those crushed flower stem and vase water vibes. With water: banana bread, olive oil, barely ‘off’ waxes, wild garlic and additional grassy and beery ‘stuff’. Mouth: very dry, sappy, peppery and with a pointy medicinal streak that makes me marvel if this wasn’t from an ex-peater cask? Very robust and again on austerity as much as 11. A great deal of limestone, concrete, graphite with funky notes of pickled tarragon and mashed turnip! With water: disjointed and fairly in every single place, some low mendacity emotions of peat, some medication, some bitter natural notes, yoghurt, aniseed, beer as soon as once more and off malt. End: medium, arid, gritty, austere and with some mashed veg and cereals. Feedback: a tough one in that there are parts I actually fairly get pleasure from, however the entire is admittedly fairly in every single place and discombobulating. Like 5 whiskies stitched collectively by a one-armed lunatic. SGP: 263 – 77 factors. 
This bottling collection actually takes me again to being at Uni in Glasgow from 2003-2007 (Movie & TV research, in case you have been asking). Color: shiny straw. Nostril: farmyard cider, wee inflections of silage, smoked teas and smoked beers, coal scuttle and a slowly rising waxy aspect. Additionally extra of those crushed flower stem and vase water vibes. With water: banana bread, olive oil, barely ‘off’ waxes, wild garlic and additional grassy and beery ‘stuff’. Mouth: very dry, sappy, peppery and with a pointy medicinal streak that makes me marvel if this wasn’t from an ex-peater cask? Very robust and again on austerity as much as 11. A great deal of limestone, concrete, graphite with funky notes of pickled tarragon and mashed turnip! With water: disjointed and fairly in every single place, some low mendacity emotions of peat, some medication, some bitter natural notes, yoghurt, aniseed, beer as soon as once more and off malt. End: medium, arid, gritty, austere and with some mashed veg and cereals. Feedback: a tough one in that there are parts I actually fairly get pleasure from, however the entire is admittedly fairly in every single place and discombobulating. Like 5 whiskies stitched collectively by a one-armed lunatic. 
SGP: 263 – 77 factors. 

Glen Mhor 30 yo 1967/1997 (60.1%, Gordon & MacPhail for thirtieth Anniversary of Barmetro, sherry, 199 bottles)
A well-known bottling! Color: mahogany. Nostril: one other universe! An unctuous and highly effective sherry, very leathery, mineral and barely animalistic with furs, outdated pinot noir and probably the most stunning cured meats. There are additionally great fruity particulars similar to spiced marmalades, some very outdated Cointreau, figs in syrup and marzipan. Fairly beautiful! With water: it’s humorous, you even get a way of that Glen Mhor concrete and austerity beneath all these great wooden saps, fir resins, ointments and treasured hardwoods. Enormous whisky! Mouth: dominating and intensely highly effective however nonetheless managed and with vastly spectacular gamey and umami notes. Drenched in Maggi, pepper sauce, Serrano ham, anchovy paste and forest mushrooms. Additionally gathers extra sticky darkish fruit traits, because it did on the nostril, the extra it develops. With water: goes actually in the direction of camphor, shoe polish, booze-filled darkish candies, bitter marmalade with coriander seeds and winter mulling spices. The facility by no means wanes. End: very lengthy! Bitterly natural, with hints of salted liquorice, tar extracts, wintergreen, sultanas and clove. Feedback: the unstoppable power of an incredible old-fashioned sherry cask meets the immovable object that was Glen Mhor distillate. The outcome is a superb however extraordinarily highly effective and monolithic whisky. You could possibly eat sixteen bowls of porridge, arm your self with twelve magnums of Highland Spring, put on a bandolier of pipettes and this wee beastie would nonetheless defeat you in tasting battle on the finish of the day! 
SGP: 562 – 93 factors.