Tomatin Cask Strength
$83.99
Matured in a 50/50 mix of Ex-Bourbon barrels and Oloroso Sherry Butts, this is the first cask strength whisky to be added to the core range. Bottled without colouring or chill filtering this first edition of the cask strength has been bottled at 57.5%. Interesting little Easter Egg is that 57.1 is also the lattitude of Tomatin Distillerry!
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: leather, Christmas cake, chocolate, warm ginger snaps from the oven and citrus airfreshner; nutty, molten brown sugar, candied fruits and mixed Christmas nuts.
Palate: big, rich and spicy, massively sherried; huge, brooding and drying nutty Oloroso sherry notes; firm leather, wet muddy leaf litter, more candied fruits in medium dark chocolate and tingling spices: cinnamon hearts, candied ginger and some clove just pulled out of honey baked ham.
Finish: long, leathery and very sherried; drying and nutty with fading Oloroso sherry, chocolate and spice.
Comment: bang for buck, if you want a lot of sherry and a high abv at a low price... this is your malt!
Distiller's Tasting Note:
Nose: Golden syrup. Orange and lemon. Pears. Walnuts. Ginger biscuits. Gets sweeter with time.
Palate: Marzipan, burnt sugar. Toasted malt loaf. Chestnuts. Polished leather. Vanilla flavoured tobacco.
Finish: Dry, with a developing spiciness.
Whisky Sponge Tomatin 29 Year Ed. No.82
$724.99
This 1994 Tomatin as matured in a "knackered old" refill sherry hogshead cask for 29 years before bottling at 49.5%. 89.56pts Whiskybase
Producer Desciption
"We’ve been searching for a good cask of Tomatin for a while, and this one offered a very pure and vivid take on this distillery’s inherent fruitiness. Fully matured in a relatively light touch old ex-sherry hogshead, the result is super fresh, fruity and focussed on that mature refill style. Very much our kind of dram and our preferred style of Tomatin.
"Whisky Sponge Edition No.82 is a 29 year old, 1994 Tomatin. It was matured full term in a knackered old refill sherry hogshead and we bottled the resultant fruit salad juice at natural cask strength."
Archives Tomatin 2011
$173.99
Bottled by Whiskybase under their Archives - The Fishes of Samoa label, this 2011 Tomatin was matured 12 years in ex-Bourbon before bottling at 58.6%. 87.22pts Whiskybase On the label, an image of an Amphiprion Chrysogaster published over 150 years ago in "The Animal Kingdom, class Pisces, drawn by E Griffith and Lieut.-Col, C. Hamilton Smith."
G&M CC Tomatin 2008
$205.99
Bottled at 52.7% this 16 year old Tomatin was matured in a Refill Bourbon Barrel.