Tomatin

40 Years Old

TOMATIN DISTILLERY COMPANY LTD

WHISKY

ABV: 43%

Style: Single Malt

Region: Highland

Price per bottle: £1,200

Bottling: Distillery

Availability: Travel Retail

Rob

Nose: Full on farmyard initially, cut hay, sileage, wet wool and some damp timber. Honey notes. A floral edge comes in with strawberry shrubs, pine forest and damp moss. Orange barley sugar at the end.

Palate: Huge sweetness with milk toffee and chocolate, oranges dipped in dark chocolate. Figs and honey, cherries, poached conference pear, dried apricots and a little roast hazelnut.

Finish: Black treacle and blackberries. Takes its time but worth the wait.

Comments: The palate leads you from farmyard to the kitchen where plum jam is being made.

8.3

Christopher

Nose: Sweet Sémillion wines; honeyed with orange juice and grapefruit peel. Empty drawers, oaky and dusty. Fresh red apple and wet clay. Mixed herbs: thyme, corriander, and marjoram.

Palate: A fresh orange and honey toddy! The sweet white wine note continues, but with nutty, oxidised aged white port. With time, a subtle sweet digestive biscuit note.there’s chocolate and that scent of musty dunnage.

Finish: Medium, with honey and white grapes.

Comments: The perfect dram to remember the long-past summer by.

8.5