Scotland, Speyside: Single malt whisky through the producing distilleries: history, making, production and tasting notes

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Tomintoul

Description of the whisky

The distillery

Tomintoul distillery
Tomintoul Distillery
Ballindalloch
Banffshire
AB37 9AQ
+44 1807 590 274
Owner: Angus Dundee Distillers
Creation date1964

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The Tomintoul distillery has been founded in 1964 by the W&S Strong and Hay & MacLeod companies.
It has been named after one of the highest villages in the Highlands. This young and modern distillery doubled its production capacity in 1974, when its first single malt was marketed.
Tomintoul enters in the composition of the blends of Whyte & MacKay group, who has been owner of the distillery from 1973 until 2000.

The whisky

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List of the bottles

Description of the distillery

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 Tomintoul: official bottlings
 

Tomintoul
10 years
Age
 10 years
Alcohol
 40°
Bottler
 Official
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This nice whisky of the Speyside area can be considered as a "standard whisky", without anything really special, but without any  major fault neither. It is mainly produced for the blending industry but its reasonable price makes one does not regret to have bought it.

A nose without any depth, rather indefinable. May be some hints of cut grass, but cut since a while. In the palate, an impression of washed-out alcohol, without particular fragrance. Alcohol, but a sweet one. A short finish devoid of interest. This whisky is not bad, but is to range amongst the insignificant ones.

The nose is marked by malted barley and quite a strong smell of yeast. A bit of smoke and some remote hay smells on the background. In the palate, the main regret is that the percentage of alcohol is a bit too low as it gives a watery character to the whole which is far from being unpleasant. Without being very complex, this whisky has quite a large tastes palette even if all are centred on malt. The finish is rather short and slightly bitter.
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Tomintoul: independent bottlings

Tomintoul
38 years old
1967-2005
fût #4485

Age
 38 years
Alcohol
 49.2°
Bottler
 Adelphi
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Tomintoul Adelphi 1967
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Tomintoul: samples

Tomintoul
1966
Prenzlow Portfolio Collection

Age
 40 years
Alcoho
 55.5°
Bottler
 Jack Wieber
Tomintoul 1966 jwww
The first nose is quite discrete. After a while, some nice vanilla notes appear together with some fruity hints (not ripe peach). The mouth is immediately marked by the fruit. Relatively monotone, however. Pear alcohol, not very complex even if the whole remains on a very acceptable level. The percentage of alcohol does not hinder the tasting. The finish is relatively short, also dominated by fruits. Some regrets about this whisky: a lack of personality and presence. I had expected some more from such an old whisky.
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Speyside

Speyside Map

The Speyside area is situated at the North of the Cairngorm mountain and goes to the Moray firth. It is delimited by two rivers: the Findhorn at the West side and the Deveron on the East side.
The area is named after the river Spey. Most of the distilleries take their water in one of its affluents; the Fiddich, the Livet or the Avon.
About sixty distilleries from Speyside are described on this site.

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