Glen Mhor 25-year-old (Distilled 1970) Campbell & Clark Ltd. / 45%/ 0.7l

Glen Mhor Distillery has not produced whisky since 1983 and is slowly fading away.

Many a young whisky lover never even had the chance to come across it, which is a shame. Glen Mhor single malt made a huge impression on Neil Gunn, a Scottish poet and writer who briefly worked at the distillery as an excise officer. “Until you have the good fortune to taste a perfectly mature whisky, you don’t know what kind of drink it is,” he wrote about Glen Mhor single malt. The Glen Mhor 25 years old presented here is a proposal from Campbell & Clark Ltd. in the 1990s. The company was established in 1934 as a subsidiary of Train & McIntyre Ltd, owners of Glenura Royal, Glenlochy and Benromacha, among others. In 1960, George Christie (Speyside Distillery Co.) took it over and bottled whisky under its brand. In 2010, Campbell & Clark Ltd. officially ceased operations. The whisky presented here comes from three barrels (no. 1164-1166) filled in 1970. The edition consisted of 1926 bottles.

Nose: sherry, cocoa powder, mixed dried herbs, roasted nuts and almonds, caramel, rhubarb cake, honey, leather, tobacco, dried mushrooms and traces of peat.

Palate: red berries, dark chocolate, espresso, sugared almonds, black pepper, dried herbs, beef broth, dried mushrooms, notes of tobacco, leather and oak tannins.

Finish : quite long, with notes of dark chocolate, sherry, oak, dried herbs, black pepper, licorice, a bit of paraffin and wax.