Critics reviews
Woody. Earthy. Like walking in a forest on a damp and dricht day. A touch of mushroom. Difficult to go behind the wood screen. Touch of dry fruit. Apricot. Gets more lively when aerated. Sour cider apples.
Palate
A very short sweet start then a full blast of bitterness. Wood rules the palate. Tastes old, too old…
Finish
Crisp, dry, bitter.
Comment
The cask has left a dour print on this whisky. Too grumpy for me.
Martine Nouet - Whisky Magazine Issue 87 Nose
Mossy and damp. Like opening a dunnage warehouse. Sharp fruit, like pickled apricot and peach.
Palate
Sweetness opens then the wood follows. That spiced peach element finishes off the gentle assault.
Finish
Short and sweet.
Comment
A little bitter and nearly balanced. Still a warming dram.
Rob Allanson - Whisky Magazine Issue 87
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Tomatin Distillery
Tomatin Distillery (pronounced Tom-at-in) means `Hill of the Juniper' in the Gaelic language. As a distilling site, illicit or otherwise, Tomatin goes back to the 15th Century when drovers - men who `drove' their cattle to market over high mountain passes - would fill up their whisky flasks from a still alongside the Old Laird's House. It was built on the site in 1897 by the Tomatin Spey District Distillery Co.
Its heydays were from 1950s to 1974 that witnessed a steep increase in its production to almost 12 million litres a year, which made Tomatin the largest Scotch whisky distillery in the world in terms of capacity at the time.
The distillery was acquired by a Japanese venture in 1986, that established the current Tomatin Distillery Company Limited, and launched the modern era of whisky distilling in the Monadhliath Mountains.
The whisky is subtle and quite flavoursome. Stylistically it sits mid-way between light, Highland single malts and other richer, lushier Speyside malts.
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Description
Nose
Woody. Earthy. Like walking in a forest on a damp and dricht day. A touch of mushroom. Difficult to go behind the wood screen. Touch of dry fruit. Apricot. Gets more lively when aerated. Sour cider apples.
Palate
A very short sweet start then a full blast of bitterness. Wood rules the palate. Tastes old, too old…
Finish
Crisp, dry, bitter.
Comment
The cask has left a dour print on this whisky. Too grumpy for me.
Martine Nouet - Whisky Magazine Issue 87 Nose
Mossy and damp. Like opening a dunnage warehouse. Sharp fruit, like pickled apricot and peach.
Palate
Sweetness opens then the wood follows. That spiced peach element finishes off the gentle assault.
Finish
Short and sweet.
Comment
A little bitter and nearly balanced. Still a warming dram.
Rob Allanson - Whisky Magazine Issue 87
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