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The Tomatin Water is a pleasant surprise. I quite like this profile, although I can see this being a divisive whisky also.
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This beast of a distillery is a treat to visit, especially when you're lucky enough to get a private tour.
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Long overdue, but I finally got around to tasting the Usquebaugh Society's club bottling from 2016, a Tomatin 2004 11 Years Old.
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A Tomatin 2006 10 Years Old from a 1st fill sherry butt. Bottled for the Dutch market, this one lacks balance.
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With a length three year finish in oloroso sherry hogsheads, this Tomatin 1995 21 Years Old shows quite the sherry influence. A powerful and delicious whisky.
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Brand ambassador Scott Adamson visited my local liquor store. He lined up six Tomatin expressions for us to taste.
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Some distilleries have magic years, and for Tomatin it is 1976. Wow, what a tropical fruit bomb!
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A Tomatin 25 Years Old bottled ten years ago (so distilled over 35 years ago). Should be good!
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At Tomatin they're not afraid to experiment with maturation in exotic cask types. For example, last year they released this Tomatin 14 Years Old Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Tomatin Contrast is an exciting experiment to try and show the difference between bourbon and sherry maturation. For each they have used casks from the same vintages: 1973, 1977, 1988, 1991, 2002 and 2006. All of them in equal measure. So they used just as much old whisky as they did young whisky.
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Gone is the hellhound marketing brouhaha — Cù Bòcan now focuses on what's most important; the liquid.
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A closer look at three releases from a young independent bottler from Belgium, Double-V.
