Glen Mhor 27 Years Old 1982 Cask #DL 5420 (Douglas Laing)

A 27 year old Glen Mhor from the Glasgow bottler Douglas Laing, distilled in 1982, from cask DL 5420, bottled at 50%, one of 256 bottles. Glen Mhor was a Highland malt distillery, demolished to make way for a supermarket. It was closed in the same cuts that took Glen Albyn, Brora and Banff.

Drawn off the stills into worm tubs for the full, oily Glen Mhor make, for a fruity, oily spirit with real body. It rested in ex-Bourbon oak, the wood adding a light vanilla over the oily body. Through the evaporative decades the spirit concentrates, esters folding into dried fruit, beeswax and a waxy oil. Most Glen Mhor went to the blenders, a little kept back to mature as single malt. The oily, waxy texture is a mark of well aged Glen Mhor. A 28 year old appeared in Diageo's Rare Malts collection, a glimpse of the lost distillery. The worm tubs gave a full, oily spirit, less copper contact leaving real weight in the make. No more will ever be made, the distillery silent since 1983.

At 50%, undiluted, it is deep and waxy. A full, oily orchard fruit, with a soft vanilla from the oak. A dried fruit and a polished oak give it depth. Apple, wax and a soft oak see out the finish. This is a rich, waxy single malt from silent Inverness.