Tamdhu 22 Year Old Duncan Taylor Rare Auld

Tamdhu 16 Year Old 1985 Chieftain’s Choice

This Tamdhu from Chieftain’s Choice was distilled when yours truly was a few months shy of owning his very first moped. Sixteen years late it was bottle, meaning this malt by now has spent more time in the bottle than on the cask. Cask? Casks – plural. It’s a vatting of two rum cask on which this malt was finished. You immediately smell the rum!...

Score 82/100

Tamdhu

I picked up a 50ml sample bottle of Tamdhu (no age statement) at a local shop, having never heard of this whisky before. At the time, I had no knowledge of the distillery, or what kind of flavor profile it had. I have since learned it is a Speyside distillery, and is known as the only distillery to malt its own barley on premise, and it is the...

Score 60/100

Tamdhu 8 Year Old The Macphail's Collection

The Macphail's Collection contains young whisky, 8 years old each time, but at a very affordable price. The same can be said for this Tamdhu. I have heard that Gordon & Macphail purchase the new make spirit directly at the distillery and then matured it on their own casks in their warehouses in Elgin. The nose is young and freshly fruity on...

Score 82/100

Tamdhu 18 Year Old

This is a repackaged and re-launched 18yr Tamdhu, so ideally I would compare it to its predecessor, however this is the first Tamdhu I’ve tried so I can’t do that! And it’s described as a “Distillery Bottling” so it’s a bit special compared to its previous incarnation. This was a fairly random purchase from the Whisky Exchange website, and I am...

Score 79/100