Mortlach 24 Years Old 1990 Cask #6079 (Signatory Vintage)

Signatory Vintage, the Edinburgh independent founded in 1988, drew this 24 Year Old, a 1990 vintage, cask 6079, an outturn of 590 bottles. The first legal distillery in Dufftown, Mortlach builds its meaty weight through low-copper worm tubs and the 2.81 distillation, and has anchored Johnnie Walker for a century.

By twenty-four years the dense Mortlach spirit had turned dense and leathery in the sherry, oxidation drawing out fig, date, walnut and dark chocolate.

At 56.5% it shows dried fruit, leather and polished oak carried on the heavy Dufftown body, undiluted. A Beast of Dufftown.