Glen Mhor Rare Malts Selection 28 Years Old 1976

A 28 year old Glen Mhor, an official bottling, from 1976, at 51.9%. Glen Mhor was a Highland malt distillery, demolished to make way for a supermarket. It installed Saladin box maltings in 1954, malting its own barley on site.

It was distilled slow in the Inverness stillhouse, the worm tubs lending weight, for the full, oily make Glen Mhor was known for. An Oloroso hogshead lent raisin, fig and a savoury edge to the worm tub spirit. In the oxidative, evaporative years concentration brings dried fruit, fig and a waxy, oily depth over the spirit. The oily, waxy texture is a mark of well aged Glen Mhor. Vanillin and oak lactones from the wood lend vanilla and coconut over the fruit. It was closed in the same cuts that took Glen Albyn, Brora and Banff. Slow oxidation over decades draws the full spirit towards a waxy, oily richness. No new spirit will follow it, the Inverness stills cold since 1983.

At cask strength 51.9% it is full bodied. Dried fruit, wax and an oily weight, with dried fruit, fig and walnut from the cask. The mouthfeel is oily and full, the fruit carried on a waxy body. The finish runs oily, full and warming. This is a full, oily Highland single malt of real age.