Longmorn 15-year-old

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Longmorn 15-year-old

Category	Single Malt Whisky from
District	Speyside
Bottler	Distillery Bottling
Bottled	2006
Age	15 years old
Strength	45.0 % Vol.
Bottle size	700 ml
Availability
Price	± € 97.00 \| £ 83.05 \| $ 129.73

Added: 17 Oct. 2007 1:25 pm

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Notes & Reviews

Furtia

posted 24 Nov. 2012

Furtia gave this whisky 77 points

Weighted rate

77

Nose - aroma

77

Initial taste

79

Body

75

Finish

74

Price

80

Presentation

78

Erik Elixer

posted 15 Jul. 2012

Erik Elixer gave this whisky 85 points

N: malty, light sherry influence, orange and apple (granny smith)
T: malty, grains and sugar
F: spicy
compared with the Longmorn 16 yrs.

I\'ll only drink on days that start with T: Tuesday, Thursday Today & Tomorrow...

The Macallan

posted 30 Jun. 2012

The Macallan gave this whisky 78 points

Color

Amontillado sherry

Nose

Sherry notes, dried fruit, oranges quite complex (reduced: more fruity and aromatic notes, but keeps complex).

Taste

Woody, spicy, sweet and vanilla notes, liqorice-wood (reduced: butter/caramel sweets from Werther's Origional).

Finish

Long, warming with some white pepper.

Comments

This one need some water, but it's a great dram.

alectron

posted 29 Mar. 2012

Since this is the only 15yo in 700ml on whiskybase, everyone will and has rated it as the Longmorn 15yo, no matter if it`s from 2006 or not (it`s a very flawed system as it is. [Either try to have all diffferent bottlings represented via bottling code - or, have one per design change which inevitably will cause rates and comments for different bottling batches. One other approach could be parent releases, where all bottlings of one design/period are parented under a master/parent, and the more detailed ones with bottling codes sit underneath and contribute to the Masters` rating - for people who don`t know or don`t care about specifics such as bottling code et al]). Anyhow enough with the rambling.

The MM Rating above is very miss-leading as it applies only to one batch from one of the Maniacs only.

MM ratings for a Longmorn 15yo version from 2000:
Maniac Ratings
Serge Valentin   75
Johannes van den Heuvel   81
Olivier Humbrecht   76
Davin de Kergommeaux   81
Ho-cheng Yao   75
Peter Silver   81
Craig Daniels   81
Lawrence Graham   88
Pit Krause   83
Retired Maniac Ratings
Bert Bruyneel   87
Luc Timmermans   82

MM ratings for a Longmorn 15yo version from 2005:
Maniac Ratings
Johannes van den Heuvel   81
Michel van Meersbergen   82
Robert Karlsson   81
Luca Chichizola   82
Thomas Lipka   84
Tim Puett   84

And finally, the 90pts from above:
MM ratings for a version from 2006 - bottling code LT30209:
Lawrence Graham 90

Remember - whisky scores and impressions are highly subjective and situational by nature - so don't go and buy whisky according to someone else's taste...

Willie JJ

posted 26 Sep. 2011

Willie JJ gave this whisky 90 points

Color

Old gold

Nose

Deep rich stewed orange dusted with sugar and faint vanilla.

Taste

The initial malt gently gives way to a rush of orange that just builds and builds.

Finish

The sweetness grows, overtaking the fruit and lingering for a long time as it dries on the tongue.

Comments

It's just got such great poise and balance this whisky. Relentlessly charming and sadly missed. It's hard to believe that only about 4 or 5 years ago a bottle of this could be had for just over £20. Then we experienced the rebranding curse and the launch of the 16yo for twice the price.

It's better to have drunk it all than never to have drunk at all.

Collector57

posted 13 Sep. 2011

Color

Burnished

Nose

A lightly sherried nose, and I do get the Christmas-cake notes that Stuart mentions. Vanilla and honey, too. The typical sherry oranges are there and buckets of malt.

Taste

Sherry, followed by a big hit of fruit, quite a bit of vanilla (custard) and barley.

Finish

Slightly astringent, but then with a surge of malt and barley in the back of the throat. Sweet and dry at the same time

Comments

A very nice whisky which it is a shame they discintinued. I haven't got to buying a bottle of the replacement 16yo yet, but it would be difficult to live up to this. I pt it in he top notch - love it!

Feusi

posted 25 Jul. 2011

Feusi gave this whisky 88 points

A well balanced and very fruity dram. Nice sherry notes, dried fruits with a hint of smoke. In the medium long finish appearing honey, smoke and wood.