Tomatin 1975 31 Year Old Cask #3923 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

Tomatin Wood

In their new series ‘Five Virtues’, Tomatin offers some NAS releases, cut to 46%. The series consists of the Earth, Fire, Metal, Water and Wood. I had the chance to pick up two of those and will put them head-to-head. I’ll start with the Wood, followed by the Fire. The wood is a mix of Tomatin matured on French (70%), American (20%) and Hungarian...

Score 83/100

Tomatin 1988

In April of last year, this Tomatin 1988 was added to the core range. It will be released in batches. Batch 2 has just been released, but I will try the first release. It is a Tomatin that matured for 25 years on bourbon and port casks. Wonderfully light, but very fruity nose on apples, pears, citrus, pineapple and strawberries with loads of icing...

Score 86/100

Tomatin 35 Year Old 1978 Small Batch Cadenhead

When the Tomatin Distillery was taken over by Takara, Shuzo & Okura in 1986, it was the first distillery to come into the hands of a Japanese country. In the 1970s, when the whisky we are about to taste was distilled, Tomatin was one of the big players with its 23 stills and a capacity of 12 million liters per annum. Today only half of the...

Score 89/100

Tomatin 12 Year Old

This is my first ever Tomatin. It's a mix of ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks. It says "finished" in sherry casks, so who knows what that means? Finished for how long? 2 years? 10 Minutes? Somewhere in between? Well, let's see what this is all about. * Nose (undiluted): Lovely! Quite surprising given my complete lack of expectations....

Score 86/100