Hunter Laing Old Malt Cask Glen Moray 2004 (15 year old) 50%
Refill Bourbon Hogshead/ Code: OMC2884/ Dist: Apr 2004 Btl: 2019/ Tasted: Jun 2019
The nose is quite dense and honeyed with a light sulphur (spirit) note. Plenty of vanilla oak, toasted toffee, coffee and marzipan comes through to sort of blanket it and with time a touch of pear and acacia appears.
The palate is dense and honeyed like the nose with apple blossom and a gain a fair amount of oak. Coffee’d tannins, and toffee on the middle. Long, citrus and honey finish with mouth-watering white fruit and drying spicy tannins. Pleasant palate but I’m note sure about the nose.
Hunter Laing Old Malt Cask Glen Moray 2004 (16 year old) 50%
Bourbon/ Code: OMC2984/ Dist: Aug 2004 Btl: 2021/ Tasted: Apr 2021
A very subtle and grassy/ herbal nose. Initially it’s a little insubstantial but it begins to fill out when the barley aromas arrive. Late under-ripe banana, lemon and vanilla cream.
The palate is a little fuller than the nose due to more toffee/ buttery oak, but it’s not a fresh and citric as the nose. Hints of barley come through on the middle but the oak is becoming rather dominant. Long with lemon, barley and grapefruit breaking through the oak. It certainly ends on a high.
Hunter Laing Old Malt Cask Glen Moray 2005 (16 year old) 50%
OMC3029/ Dist: May 2005 Btl: 2021?/ Tasted: June 2021
A gorgeously rich and honeyed nose. Orange blossom honey, shot through with lime and hints of heather, dusty barley, apple and ginger. It’s a lovely balanced nose.
Light bodied and fresh on the palate. Barley’d and elegant with subtle creamy oak, honey, ginger and apricot on the middle which makes it feel a little weightier. Long, orange, lime and heather finish and a herbal spice after-taste.
Hunter Laing Old Malt Cask Glen Moray 1991 (21 year old) 50%
Refill Bourbon Hogshead/Code: OMC2308/ HL9935
Dist: Oct 1991 Btl: Aug 2013/ Tasted: Sept 2013
Quite an earthy, natural nose with barley, black pepper and herbal honey. Quite deep and with time hints of lemon, lightly perfumed orange and granulated sugar appear. In fact it’s now quite sweet!
The palate opens with the creamy, fudgy oak followed by barley, light malt, treacle and toffee. There’s a brief spicy burst on the middle and then its back to the malt, treacle and toffee. Medium length but the m, t and t lingers.
Hunter Laing Old Malt Cask Glen Moray 1995 (21 year old) 50%
Refill Bourbon Hogshead/Code: OMC2588/ HL12819
Dist: Mar 1995 Btl: Aug 2016/ Tasted: Oct 2016
An evocative nose of peach, barley, honey and white fruit. Hints of lemon grass, dusty American oak follows. It darkens a little with time as the malt appears.
The palate is crisp, fresh and quite grassy with white fruit, barley and a little wood tannin. The oak is pleasantly mature and the building citrus on the middle is balanced by some sweet barley and honey. Long and juicy with lingering citrus, spice and vanilla.
Hunter Laing Old Malt Cask Glen Moray 1997 (21 year old) 50%
Refill Bourbon Barrel/ Code: OMC2922/ DL17201
Dist: Oct 1997 Btl: Sept 2019/ Tasted: Oct 2019
The nose opens with plenty of sweet and dusty barley along with herbal American oak and both corn and rye-like notes. Hints of gooseberry, green apple, lemon and lime appear but it’s very oaky. Late white rose, camomile and nettles. I have to say that giving it some time in the glass makes it beautifully fragrant.
The palate displays mily vanilla and hints of apple, pear, gooseberry, dusty barley, a touch of malt and grippy, fresh American oak tannins. A little herbal honey fills out the middle but the citrus notes intensify too. Long and mineral with lingering green apple, gooseberry, but that’s marred by an interrupting, slightly burnt, toffee’d corn note.
Hunter Laing Old Malt Cask Glen Moray 1991 (28 year old) 50%
Refill Bourbon/ Code: OMC2935/ Dist: Oct 1991 Btl: 2019/ Tasted: Dec 2019
The evocative nose opens with a gentle lemon, lime and sawdusty oak note. Lovely depth with fresh, bright barley, apricot, honeysuckle, milky vanilla and toffee. Pleasantly aromatic and floral with time.
The palate displays fresh lemon and barley with subtle sawdusty oak, honeysuckle and apricot. Hints of vanilla toffee comes through on the middle along with a touch of dried fruit. It continues fresh, citric and mineral through to the finish and the oak balances and stops it becoming too austere. Good tongue tingling spice and citrus after-taste.
Hunter Laing Hepburns Choice Glen Moray 2007 (8 year old) 46%
Bourbon/ Code: HEP0098/ Dist: Apr 2007 Btl: Apr 2015/ Tasted: May 2015
A lovely, fragrant and estery nose with soft banana, pineapple and sugar coated melon. Hints of barley and creamy oak emerge along with some herbal spice. The aromas become a little oilier with time and hints of almond and butter toffee appear. A seriously delightful nose!
The palate opens with the soft and creamy vanilla-toffee, barley, honey and banana. Hints of exotic fruit and oak come through and give it a lovely fleshy mouth-feel. Long with a cinnamon spiced, piquant but chewy and malty finish.
Hunter Laing Hepburns Choice Glen Moray 2007 (9 year old) 46%
Refill Bourbon Barrel/ Code: HEP0236/ Dist: Nov 2007 Btl: 2017/ Tasted: May 2017
A nose of marzipan and oily barley with hints of citrus. Quite robust by Moray standards with subtle, floral honey with a touch of gooseberry, herbs and earth.
The palate is fresher and more citric with sweet barley, vanilla and a touch of spice. Good depth of stone fruit and malt on the middle. Long and spicy with gentle vanilla and sweet barley finish.
Hunter Laing Hepburns Choice Glen Moray 2007 (10 year old) 46%
Bourbon/ Code: HEP0319/ Dist: Nov 2007 Btl: ?/ Tasted: Mar 2018
Aromas of fragrant barley, banana, apricot and silky American oak. It has a slight Irish feel to it with plenty of estery notes and late citrus and gooseberry.
The palate opens with dusty barley, apricot, apple, banana and sweet, almond infused vanilla. Lovely balance and intensity, with the oak becoming very nutty and ‘Boubony’ on the middle, but it doesn’t dominate as the lovely spiced apple and pear notes balance. Long and vanilla’d with a lovely, silky finish.
Hunter Laing Hepburns Choice Glen Moray 2001 (12 year old) 46%
Bourbon/ Code: HEP0048/ Dist: Nov 2001 Btl: July 2014/ Tasted: Aug 2014
A lovely, full and fragrant nose. Very estery with apricot, banana and lightly tropical fruit. With time the creamy oak emerges along with a slight grassiness.
The palate mirrors the nose. Full and fleshy with apricot, banana and sweet barley. A very summery dram with hints of white fruit and grass. Good length with a light white pepper note in the finish and a lightly mentholated after-taste.
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