Tamdhu 28 Year Old Bottled 1970's George Strachan

Tamdhu 18 Year Old

Tamdhu recently closed doors. Edrington Group blames the bad economic situation. It used to deliver a part of The Famous Grouse, Dunhill (currently popular in the US), J&B and Cutty Sark. Single malts from this Speysider are few and far between. This is their most recent bottling. The nose is flowery and spicy with a whiff of smoke. I get some...

Score 75/100

Tamdhu 14 Year Old 1998 Douglas of Drumlanrig

Douglas of Drumlanrig is an independent bottler of which the owner is said to be a descendant of the family Douglas who lived in the Drumlanrig Castle. It’s actually more a mansion than a castle, but I digress. The bottler is part of Langside Distillers. Only 12 bottles of this Tamdhu appeared… that’s quite odd. The nose is spring clean and sweet...

Score 84/100

Tamdhu Batch Strength / Batch No 2

Tamdhu is another distillery that until now has evaded my rapier pen. This Speyside distillery was founded in 1896 and lies between Cardhu and Knockando. It's quite large with nine pine washbacks and three pairs of stills. After closing it in 2010, Edrington sold it to Ian Macleod Distillers (who just bought Rosebank) who revived the lagging brand...

Score 90/100

Tamdhu 11 Year Old 2002 Malts of Scotland

This Tamdhu got a wonderful color from the sherry cask. The distillery was revived several years ago by Ian McLeod, but this is a distillate from the previous owners, the Edrington Group, because it was distilled in 2002. Tamdhu is Gaelic for black hill, by the way. This is not the first Tamdhu bottled by Malts of Scotland, but it is one of the...

Score 86/100