Glen Mhor 24 Years Old 1982 Cask #422 (Oddbins)

The bottler Oddbins bottled this Glen Mhor, a 24 year old, distilled in 1982, from cask 422, bottled at 46%, one of 190 bottles. Glen Mhor was the fuller, oilier of the lost Inverness distilleries. It was closed in the same cuts that took Glen Albyn, Brora and Banff.

The spirit was made on Loch Ness water and condensed in the cast iron worm tubs, for a fruity, oily spirit with real body. Maturation in an Oloroso cask laid dried fruit, fig and walnut over the oily malt. Through the evaporative decades the spirit concentrates, esters folding into dried fruit, beeswax and a waxy oil. Years in oak round the spirit, the orchard fruit deepening to dried fruit and beeswax. After closure it was demolished, the site given over to a retail development. It stood between the Caledonian Canal and the railway in Inverness. The worm tubs are the key to Glen Mhor's body, holding the heavier, oily notes in the spirit. No new spirit will follow it, the Inverness stills cold since 1983.

At 46% it is full and waxy. Apple, pear and a waxy oil, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. The mouthfeel is oily and full, the fruit carried on a waxy body. A long, full finish ends on orchard fruit and beeswax. This is a rare Highland single malt from a demolished distillery.