Tormore 10 Year Old Bottled 1970's 75cl

Tormore 26 Year Old 1988 The Ultimate

Tormore is one of those distilleries that you have heard of but barely see any bottles from. It’s a beautiful distillery, designed by the famous architect Sir Albert Richardson. I’ll be trying an independent release from the Dutch bottler Van Wees in their well-known The Ultimate series. The sherry butt yielded no less than 557 bottles. The nose...

Score 85/100

SMWS 105.14 - A sweet song with deeper resonances

The Tormore distillery was the first Scottish distillery to be built in the 20th century (in 1958-1960), and sounds like one of the more intriguing distilleries to visit - some Googling tells me it has a clock that plays scottish tunes every quarter hour, hedges shaped like stills, and cute workers' cottages nearby. Alas, the plan for a...

Score 90/100

Tormore 25 Year Old 1995 The Whisky Agency

This is another nice joint bottling between the German The Whisky Agence on the one hand and the Japanese Three Rivers Tokyo on the other. It is a Tormore that matured for a quarter of a century. The nose is rather austere, if that makes sense. A lot of malt sugars and cereals, some white fruit but especially mineral and herbal notes that...

Score 85/100

Tormore 21 Year Old 1990 Mackillop’s Choice

We can safely call this bottling of Mackillop's Choice an oldie, because it was distilled in 1990 and bottled for almost ten years. It's a Tormore, a house that hasn't appeared on my radar that often. Oh, yummy! A nose full of vanilla custard and eggnog (you know, the thick liquid liqueur). Some nuts and chestnuts, wood glue (which reminds me of...

Score 85/100