Tamnavulin Double Cask

Overall a light, easily approachable scotch. Nose is honey, caramel, underripe pears, and white bread. Taste is pear apple fruitiness, cigar tobacco, and light oak. Finish is short and fairly weak but still pleasant.

Tastes of banana! Finish weak! No smoke

I have a bit of a soft spot for Tamnavulin Double Cask. It was a major component of the blended whisky Whyte & MacKay that was my gateway into whisky as a student in the early 90s. It’s alcohol heavy up front but it moves into sweet caramel, with a load of raisin and plums. It has a nice long finish that starts to taste more like a rum. An easy drinking whisky.

The nose perceives a note of disinfectant, a not very pleasant background that remains all the time. Banana, vanilla, caramel, honey, a pinch of cinnamon, in a sweet but flat profile, lashed by a sour and vaguely lemonade whiff. In the mouth, the sherried profile prevails, which soon dissolves in a rather monochromatic alcohol bath, with candied orange, cinnamon and honey that sprout with little conviction. On the length, the wood tends to be felt with a certain intrusiveness. Medium-short finish, of wood and cinnamon and a lot, too much alcohol.