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Mortlach 16 Year Old Flora & Fauna

Scotch Single Malt Speyside
Age
16 years
ABV
43%
Introduced
1992
Flavour Fingerprint
Malt Light Fruit Citrus Floral Herbal Spice Sweet Dark Fruit Nutty Earth Maritime Smoke / Peat

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Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.

Tasting

How it drinks

Sight
Rich amber with warm copper tones from heavy sherry maturation. Deep and full — classic Flora & Fauna bottling colour
Nose
Sticky maple syrup, sharp sherried fruit, mulching grass and mint. Iberico ham, walnuts, dark malt, and well-aged sherry. Spiced fruit notes with noticeable Speyside citrus peel. A cult classic nose
Palate
Rich taste of caramel, brittle toffee and polished wood. Full-bodied with the unmistakable Mortlach meatiness enveloped in heavy sherry influence. Walnuts, dark malt, and dried fruit. The definitive old-style Mortlach bottling
Finish
Long, warming finish with sherry sweetness and savoury depth. Toffee and polished wood linger. A benchmark expression that launched the Mortlach cult following before discontinuation in 2014

Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.

Maturation

The wood it came through

  • Ex-sherry casks — heavily sherried
  • classic Flora & Fauna bottling

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