Today Mannochmore


September 17, 2021

	Summer Duets Today Mannochmore
	Another Distillery that does not seem to gather much love is Mannochmore and that's exactly why, rather perversely, we keep trying to taste it every once in a while. What's more, we've had some good ones in the past if we do not take the Distillery's most infamous sub-product into consideration. Loch Dhu, of course!

Mannochmore 18 yo 1999/2018 (46%, Gordon & MacPhail, Connoisseurs Choice, refill sherry butt, cask #10686, 670 bottles)

Colour: gold. Nose: a little kirschy, with cherries, stalks and stems and something rough and a little hot. Notes of wine and mead too, perhaps a little peanut butter. Not too easy to pin down. Mouth: sameish, that is to say a little raw and hot, with more eau-de-vie, a feeling of cider, some oak pepper, polenta, then raisins from the sherry I suppose. Feels a little PXed but I wouldn't bet my bottom Euro on that. Tends to become green and a little too peppery. Finish: medium, raw, kirschy. Cherry stem tea in the aftertaste. Comments: a rather tough, un-modern baby. For your old pewter hipflask.
SGP:461 - 78 points.

Un-modern? Let's try one by some of the kings of modern maturing…

Mannochmore 11 yo 2009/2021 (55.1%, James Eadie, PX finish, cask #356850, 299 bottles)

I had liked a sister cask a lot back in July (WF 87). See, we taste Mannochmore often. Colour: rosé copper amber. Nose: not too sure this time. Something metallic, curiously sooty, with whiffs of peonies and blood oranges, chalk, raisins, gravy, brown sauce, Bulldog sauce... Indeed quite a mixture, a tad tumultuary perhaps but water may help big time to tidy it up, so to speak. OH and by the way, some sides do remind me of… Loch Dhu. Ha. With water: things are better but it remained a little kirschy and not that different from the G&M, in fact. More sourness, cherries, mud and clay… In fact, I'm not too sure. Mouth (neat): maraschino and butterscotch at first, Mon Chéri, then various liqueur-filled chocolates and a feeling of chewing pipe tobacco. With water: better, it seems that we managed to get to the 80-mark this time. Raspberry Jell-O, purple cola (yep, blueberries), cherry jam… Works with our inner child. Finish: medium, more on cherry jam. Damson plums in ambush. Comments: a lot of fun here, but you need to be a cherry and blueberry freak.
SGP:751 - 80 points.

Check the index of all Mannochmore we've tasted so far

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