Tamnavulin 1968 Cask 3659 Celebration of the Cask Carn Mor

Tamnavulin 21 Year Old 1989 A.D. Rattray

Tomnavoulin is a village in Speyside of which the name is Gaelic for ‘mill on the hill’. That is also where Tamnavulin Distillery got her name from. It is a very young distillery in fact, founded only in 1966 for the purpose of producing whisky for the renewed demand for blends. Mostly for Whyte & Mackay, but also for Crawfords and...

Score 84/100

Master of Malt Tamnavulin Single Cask 16 Year Old

Nose: malty start with grapey accents. Some pears. Becomes significantly more flowery and a lot sweeter after breathing. Vanilla. There’s also a vegetal side to it, like raw cabbage. That may seem strange, but it’s quite enjoyable. Mouth: starts very sweet but grows maltier (and even sweeter). Apples and pears. Nice oak. Hints of pineapple sweets...

Score 81/100

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 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