Tamnavulin 16 Year Old Single Cask Master of Malt

Tamnavulin 1977 Inchedemmie Dew

I could not find a lot of information on this bottle. It would seem that a certain Mr Gray bottled this for his Inchedemmie Villa in Forres, near Elgin. I have no clue who Mr Gray was, but by the looks of it, I would venture this was bottled somewhere in the early 1990s. It smells fairly young on sweet malt, yellow apples, peach and dandelions....

Score 82/100

Tamnavulin 40 Year Old 1968 Carn Mor

I tried this Tamnavulin at the end of last year in Ghent and found it quite excellent. So I am very happy to have been able to score a sample to retry it in the quiet of my tasting room. After 40 long years of maturation it still has an ABV of 40,6%. Soft, round and honeysweet nose. Quince, marzipan, vanilla, oranges. The vanilla becomes louder...

Score 88/100

Tamnavulin 21Yr Old Signle Cask

I must admit I had never heard of Tamnavulin until around 6 months ago. Scotland has many distilleries and this is one of those that happily hides in plain sight. Started in 1966 this is a very efficient operation producing around 4 million litres of spirit each year. Very pale in colour, the palest 21 yr I can remember seeing. Bottled as an...

Score 87/100

Tamnavulin 28 Year Old 1988 A.D. Rattray

For my thirteenth encounter with this distillery, I selected a 28 years old Tamnavulin that was distilled in 1988 and bottled at cask strength in 2016 by A.D. Rattray. It’s not easy to find official Tamnavulin. It’s a young workhorse (only founded in 1966) for the blenders, mostly White & Mackay. They own the distillery, by the way. The nose...

Score 79/100