Longmorn 16 year old single malt whisky was released to replace their 15 year old as part of the relaunch of Longmorn distillery. The discontinued 15YO by the way, is a high rated single malt in Whisky Connosr community – with an average of 91 points it used to be even in the top 10 (16th at the moment). The reputation of the 15YO really helps Longmorn’s desire to be a super premium single malt maker brand. My only taste of Longmorn before this was a bottling by Murray McDavid, which was brilliant. For a long time, Longmorn has been a popular component for whisky blenders. Longmorn uses water from local springs and gets the barley from Moray, peat from nearby sources. They used to get the power for the entire distillery from a large water wheel, which is still located in the distillery, no longer in use though. Founded in 1893, Longmorn has had many owners: The Glenlivet Distillers Ltd. in 1970, Chivas Brothers in 1978 and 2001 it was acquired by the French Pernod Ricard Group. On a lovely sunny, yet chilly Monday lunchtime in London a gathering of a few select whisky journalists gathered to have a luscious lunch in Claridges to celebrate the launch of a new range of Longmorn single malt whisky, a Speyside classic. Unless mandatory applicable law provides otherwise, your use of and membership to the Service are exclusively governed by Dutch law. We shall first try to settle any dispute over a dram of whisky. Disputes that cannot be settled over multiple drams of whisky shall be solely submitted to the court of Amsterdam, The Netherlands unless mandatory applicable law provides otherwise. The Service has been prepared by us solely for information purposes to Members and the Service is based on information we consider reliable and we obtain the contents of the Service from a number of different third party sources (including Contributions), but we do not endorse, support, represent, warrant or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of the Services and any information therein.

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Stunning, beautiful, dry, fruity, caramel with heavy vanilla nose and palate. The palate was vibrant, juicy, mature, green apples, silky and all round brilliant with a super-long white peppery finish. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, the remainder of the Terms shall continue in full force and effect. Without prejudice to the section Liability below, the Service may be temporarily unavailable during maintenance, updates, etc. We shall make reasonable efforts to inform you of any unavailability due to maintenance or updates.It was not an ideal time to build two new plants and in 1899 he was forced to sell to James Grant.Although Duff’s business was not sound, his whisky was and by the start of the 20th century Longmorn was a prize malt, used in a variety of blends including VAT 69 and Dewar’s. In 1920, the young Masataka Taketsuru, one of the fathers of Japanese whisky and founder of Nikka, spent a short period working in the distillery. The stills at Nikka’s two distilleries are said to be modelled on Longmorn’s.