Glen Mhor 30 Years Old 1966 Barmetro 30th Anniversary 1967 1997 (G&M)

A 30 year old Glen Mhor from the Elgin house Gordon and MacPhail, distilled in 1966, bottled at 60.1%, one of 199 bottles. Glen Mhor ran on Loch Ness water in Inverness for over ninety years before closing in 1983. It was closed in the same cuts that took Glen Albyn, Brora and Banff.

It was distilled in a single pair and a half of stills and cooled in worm tubs, for a rich, oily make of orchard fruit and a waxy weight. Maturation in an Oloroso cask laid dried fruit, fig and walnut over the oily malt. In its ethereal years the malt is waxy and oxidative, faded esters and a touch of sotolon (maple, dried fig). The worm tubs are the key to Glen Mhor's body, holding the heavier, oily notes in the spirit. The oily, waxy texture is a mark of well aged Glen Mhor. It condensed its spirit in worm tubs, the source of its full, oily body. Active wood frames the fruit without smothering the full, oily spirit. With Glen Mhor gone, every bottle draws on a finite, dwindling stock.

Bottled at a cask strength 60.1%, it is rich. Baked apple, wax and a gentle spice, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. Soft orchard fruit and a waxy oil sit behind the cask. It finishes full, oily and waxy. This is a full, oily Highland single malt of real age.