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Tormore

Tormore Distilleries
Tormore Distillery
Advie, Grantown on Spey
Morayshire
PH26 3LR
+44 1807 510 244

Owner: Pernod-Ricard
Creation date 1959

The Tormore distillery is one of the most recent in Scotland, as it has been build between 1958 and 1960 for Long John International by the architect Sir Albert Richardson. It is also the first one to be build in the 20th century.
Despite its young age, this distillery is already a listed building. For this reason, it is not allowed to change anything to its external aspect.
One of the architectural particularities is the clock which bells each quarter of an hour, the copper rotors and the granite used for the building.
The houses of the workers are build in the same style.
The garden is remarkable too, with its hedges in the shape of a bell or a still.
Long John has been absorbed by Whitbread & Co in 1975, and the distillery has been acquired in the same year by Allied Distillers Ltd.
The Tormore distillery is under control of Pernod-Ricard since the French Company purchased the activities of Allied Domecq in 2005.

The whisky

List of the bottles

Official 12 years 75/100
4
3 1
Douglas Laing Provenance: 10 years Spring Distillation 74/100
3
3 0
Malts of Scotland Sherry Butt 1988 87/100
1
1 0
Signatory 14 years, new barrel sherry cask 74/100
1
0 1

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Tormore

12 years

Age
12 years
Alcohol percentage
40,0 %
Bottler
Official
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75/100
 
The colour is amber, and the nose detects slightly smoky hints. Warm sherry and vanilla aromas with a touch of caramel.
The taste is rich and complex, malty and slightly peaty, and the finish is long, recalling sherry, oak and smoke.
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Personal Comment
The first nosing left a very good impression. A domination by malt with some slightly acid hints. The taste is influenced by sherry hints, on a background of malted barley, and some smoke. A rather long and pleasant finish completes the image, and prolongs the pleasure of drinking the not very famous whisky. 
79/100
At the second tasting, the first impression is a great sweetness, and a honey and vanilla fragrance is detected by the nose. The palate confirms this first impression, and slightly smoky malt hints are present. The finish is rather long, and the vanilla sweetness is still present.
70/100
A pleasant sweet nose, marked by ripe fruits, pear or melon, with a hint of pepper on the background. Remote touches of dryed grass too. In the palate, the fruity sweetness shares the attention with toffee notes and a touch of bitterness. A pleasant finish, rather long, somewhere between hazelnut and malt. Just sweetness.
79/100
 
Comment by Johannes_Sauer
Colour: Bright golden, clear apple juice
Nose: Cereals are pushed infront by a strong alcoholic impression. Pott Rum my mother used for baking. Later a little strange but not unpleasant vegetable note like parsley, cellery and carrots. Vegetable soup with oats and pearl barley. Also always more and more cereals and porridge.
Palate: Sweet and full, the strong alcoholic appearance mixes well with the also strong cereals, grain, wheat and oatflakes. The veggie-soup suggestion of the nose is replaced by a soft fruity impression. Sugar plums.
Finish: The whole beautiful picture of a ripe cornfield in a sunset vanishes but far too fast, surprisingly, without leaving any strong impressions. Conc.: A malt reminding me to some blends: A fresh but unbalanced nose, a beautiful taste and a so! ft but unsatisfying finish.
74/100


 
 

Tormore

Provenance: 10 years Spring Distillation

Collection
Provenance
Age
10 years
Alcohol percentage
43,0 %
Bottler
Douglas Laing
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74/100
 
 Colour: gold
The nose is clear, dry and detects nut aromas.
The body is full and oily, with vanilla and marzipan hints.
First dry, it becomes smoother, and the finish is long.

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Personal Comment
The nose recognizes immediately a Speyside whisky, even if the complexity is less than for other malts from this area.  The taste, rather dry and slightly acid is far from being unpleasant, even if it is difficult to define. The finish is a bit too short, and leaves hungry for more..
70/100
The second tasting confirmed the lack of complexity, but this whisky is excellent. The finish seemed longer, malty but balanced. The taste seemed more pleasant and this is why the rating is higher than the first time.
74/100
At the third tasting, the nose was very fruity (ripe pear), relatively complex, with some hay, cake and cinnamon smells. In the palate, a kind of bitterness and some slight acidity, somewhere between wood (or walnut) and citrus fruit, going successively from the one to the other. A nice woody and spicy finish (pepper).
79/100
 

Tormore

Sherry Butt 1988

Age
24 years
Alcohol percentage
55,4 %
Bottler
Malts of Scotland
Cask
Sherry butt
Cask number
single cask 12043
Dates
Distil: 09/1988 Bottling: 09/2012
Bottle
89 of 524 btls
Particularity
Non chillfiltered cask strength
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87/100
Tormore 1988
Personal Comment
Color: Dark Mahogany
A slight odor of solvent and paint with some tingling due to alcohol first, before moving on to the sherry. The nose gives a nice feeling of freshness.
The first impression on the palate is very pleasant and strong enough contrast with the nose. Sherry immediately apparent and beautiful nutty with a hint of mocha give a nice complexity to the whisky.
The finish is long and warm memories of the sweet bitterness of the nuts mixed with hints of coffee is nice.
87/100

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Tormore

14 years, new barrel sherry cask

Collection
Signatory Vintage
Age
14 years
Alcohol percentage
43 %
Bottler
Signatory
links & average quote
74/100
Tormore Signatory
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