Tamnavulin 1991 Connoisseurs Choice Gordon and MacPhail

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 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

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

Tamnavulin 10yo (80's miniature)

The last distillery on my list that begins with the letter ‘T’, appropriately enough also the youngest distillery build in Scotland from the T-class. Maybe Torabhaig, the newcomer from the magnificent Isle of Skye can change all that. With little to no news on this project’s progress, we can only guess when that will be. Now to the matter at hand,...

Score 77/100