Tamnavulin 10 Year Old

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 12 Year Old

This Speysider – which is owned by Whyte & Mackay – was bottled in 2005 gebotteld and can still be found today, even though it is no longer being produced. There are not that many official bottlings of Tamnavulin, but independents bottle it often enough. Anyway, this is a veritable entry level malt. The nose is very easy, sweet and basically...

Score 78/100

Tamnavulin Double Cask

Tamnavulin is still owned by Whyte & Mackay, but was only recently relaunched as a single malt. 2016, I believe. Before that, you hardly found any because the company focused on Isle of Jura and – to lesser extent – Fettercairn. One of the first new releases was this Double Cask which, as the name suggests, matured on two types of cask. First...

Score 78/100

Tamnavulin 20 Year Old 1992 Cadenhead’s

Tamnavulin… now that is a distillery that really does not appear on my radar often. This is only the twelfth dram I try from this Speysider. The name of the distillery, by the way, means ‘mill on the hill’, but I digress. I’m trying a malt that spent two decades on a wine cask from Chateau Lafitte – I think that should be Lafite-Rothschild (with...

Score 81/100