Tormore 10 Year Old Bottled 1990s

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

Tormore 13 Year Old Discovery Gordon & Macphail

In their series Discovery, in which bottler Gordon & Macphail mainly bottles young, affordable entry-level malts, appeared in 2018 this 13-year-old Tormore, bottled from a bourbon cask. Clearly refill, because it is very pale. The nose is very light and very simple not to say boring. Some pear juice, malt sugars and a little vanilla. Light...

Score 80/100

Tormore 1995/2013 Gordon&MacPhail for The Whisky Mercenary

Tormore is the obscure distillery that marks the beginning of an era, namely the 60’s, when rapid expansion and modernisation destroyed much of the traditional whisky heritage while sawing the seeds of the impending doom of the 80’s. But unlike her contemporaries this distillery was no moloch of concrete and corrugated iron. Architecturally wise...

Score 86/100

Tormore 16 Year Old

This is only my 7th Tormore. It is the new release in the brand new packaging and matured for 16 years on American oak. The nose bursts with vanilla cookies, chocolate, all kinds of nuts and loads of butterscotch. I am reminded of the Café Noir cookies, actually. Hints of chocolate, gooseberries and apricots. This is rather good. It is quite light...

Score 85/100