Longmorn 1968-2007 - 38 Year Old - SMWS 7.38 - An Old Barbers Shop

INFORMATION

Longmorn 1968 - 2007. 38 Year Old. Bottled by The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Society cask number 7.38. An Old Barber's Shop. 70cl. 52.5%. 91.8%.

DISTILLERY:Longmorn

DISTILLERY STATUS:Working

Bottle ABV:52.5% / 91.8 Proof

Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml

BOTTLER:The Scotch Malt Whisky Society

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

LIMITED EDITION:yes

CASK NUMBER:7.38

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Speyside

DISTILLED YEAR:1968

BOTTLING DATE::2007

AGE:38

One of the greatest Speyside distilleries, Longmorn was founded in 1894 and today is one of the shiniest stars in owner Pernod Ricard’s Chivas Brothers portfolio of whisky distilleries. Although official bottlings are thin on the ground, Longmorn’s whisky was for many years bottled under license by Gordon & MacPhail, who have released a high proportion of the all-time classic Longmorns and still put out outstanding long-aged Longmorn today.

Longmorn’s whisky sparkles in both sherry and bourbon casks and is capable of withstanding extremely long maturation periods while still retaining (particularly in the older vintages) a superb old-school waxiness and the distillery’s trademark grapefruit and exotic fruit flavours, with the fruitiest examples coming from the mid-1970s and earlier. Older vintages also generally have more prominent threads of smoke and mineral notes among the honeyed fruit and chocolate biscuit flavours.