Tamnavulin Double Cask was the first release from the distillery since the 1990s! Over the past 20 or so years, the distillery changed hands from Invergordon Distillers to Whyte & MacKay, closed a few years later and reopened in 2007. Much of its single malt output is used in blends, but a few casks of single malt would sneak out as indie bottlings to allow us a rare taste of Tamnavulin - but now they've got their very own expression! They initially mature the whisky in American oak barrels before treating it to a finishing period in sherry casks.
Chocolate mousse, extra thick double cream with a dusting of brown sugar, stewed apples and blackberries.
Christmas pudding, chocolate brownies, yellow plum and toffee-coated barley.
Spiced rum sweetness lingers on the finish.
The tasting notes above are, I take it, some kind of American joke (chocolate brownies and Christmas pudding !!!). I'm a Scotsman with a bottle of the cratur right in front of me and I've been drinking whisky for over sixty years. Should I keep this bottle's cap on? Please tell your USA customers that Scotch whisky is spelled without an "e"!
Smooth, great tasting whisky at the price. Not a complex whisky, not much depth but good value.
exelant nose have always drank glenmorangie but much prefare this one
Have tried many whiskeys and love the Speyside single malts.. This is my new favourite.. Soft, smooth and chocolatier.
Baffled by how negative some folks can be to what has been a great find for me and others I know. Each to their own taste I guess, but I love the richness of this malt and at such a great price too.
