Mossburn Single Malt Scotch Whisky – Vintage Casks No. 15 – Mannochmore – Aged 11 Years (55.6% ABV)

The Mossburn Vintage Casks range are a collection of Single Malt Scotch Whiskies each issuing from a strictly limited and select batch of casks. Each numbered release will only ever yield a finite number of bottles. While this means that we can never replicate the particular character of this Single Malt, it also offers an opportunity to sample what we believe to be an exceptional example of the whisky made by one of Scotland’s most distinguished distilleries.

Tasting Notes
With eight washbacks and eight stills, Mannochmore lies at the other end of the ageing warehouses to its sister distillery Glenlossie, close to the town of Elgin in the heart of the Speyside region. The stills are slightly thinner and taller than some in the Diageo estate, and this emphasises the florality in the newly made spirit. After eleven years in cask this has developed some soft fruit, candied cereal notes and cinnamon spice with a well-structured and firm finish.

Producer Summary
At Mossburn we only produce handcrafted whiskies of the highest quality, selected from our own aging stock. For this Vintage Casks range we have sought out Single Malts of interest, issued from specific vintages, with full traceability of the distillation and cask aging they have undergone. The master blender has specially selected these barrels from our aging warehouses, where many Single Malt Casks lie slowly maturing, as worthy of special Mossburn Distillers & Blenders bottling. Each batch exhibited the classic hallmarks of balance, depth and complexity that only the best Single Malts can deliver. This select release has been bottled at cask strength, without any coloring or chill filtration, to showcase the purest expression of the Single Malt’s character.