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Tormore

Description of the whisky

The distillery

Tormore distilery
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

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Tormore
12 years
Age
 12 years
Alcohol
 40%
Bottler
 Official
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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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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. 

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.

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.
 

Commentaire de 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.

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Tormore 10 years
Provenance
Spring distillation
Age
 10 years
Alcohol
 43%
Bottler
 Douglas Laing
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 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.

(note of the bottler)

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..

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.

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).
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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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