Glen Mhor 50 Year Old 1965 (cask 3934) - Cask Strength Collection Rare Reserve (Signatory) | 700ML

Cor! Check out this impressive single malt from Glen Mhor! Distilled all the way back on 9th December 1965 – the same week that young rockers The Who were tearing their way up the charts with My Generation. After initially maturing in a refill butt, the whisky spent a whopping 88 months finishing in an Oloroso sherry cask, until it was independently bottled by Signatory in January 2016. A total of 353 bottles were released for Signatory's Cask Strength Collection Rare Reserve.

Glen Mhor 50 Year Old 1965 (cask 3934) - Cask Strength Collection Rare Reserve (Signatory) | 700ML Tasting Notes

Nose: Old leather, polished oak, almonds and Cognac-like rancio.

Palate: More of that rich, vegetal rancio on the palate, now paired with a very light spritz of citrus and mint. Cooking spices develop later on, with a big whack of allspice.

Finish: Cigar box and maybe a touch of Sherried oak.

Distillery Information

The stills of Glen Mhor fell silent in 1983, along with those of the neighbouring distillery Glen Albyn. It was in 1980 that Diageo acquired Glens Albyn and Mhor respectively, demolishing them both several years later to make way for a shopping centre. Glen Mhor sits more or less atop the Caledonian Canal, the 62 mile man-made waterway which cuts a course from Inverness to Corpach. The whisky distillery was Scotland’s first to install a Saladin Box, a malting device which proved thoroughly economical for quite some time. Founded in 1892, by John Birnie and James Mackinlay, Glen Mhor draws its waters from the tourist Mecca of Loch Ness. The renowned Scottish author, Neil Gunn, was, for many years, an exciseman and he spent some time in the highlands and was posted almost permanently at Glen Mhor. There he learnt to love single malt whiskies, in a period when they were pretty much inaccessible for anyone who lived further from the distillery than on its very doorstep. Gunn recalled the first sip of a good dram: "at such a moment the basest man would bless his enemy". The single malt whiskies of the Glen Mhor distillery are quite rare today; there have been but a couple of house bottlings and a handful of independent releases over the years.

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