Mortlach

Dufftown's first legal distillery makes Speyside's least typical malt. Its bizarre arrangement of six mismatched stills — including the tiny 'Wee Witchie' — yields a spirit distilled 2.81 times by the distillery's own arithmetic, run through worm tubs for a dense, meaty, sulphury character blenders prize in tiny doses. Long a connoisseur's secret inside Johnnie Walker, 'The Beast of Dufftown' now stalks shelves as a rich, savoury single malt.