Richard-ModernDrinking
Tomatin 30 Year
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed
August 12, 2019 (edited August 16, 2019)
Nose: A wood cabin on a perfect spring day, just warm enough to wake the walls from their winter slumber. A jar of honey sits on the kitchen table.
Palate: Interesting... Bready, slightly sweet, something slightly savory, like refried beans of all things.
Finish: Long, with a hint of mint.
This was a difficult one to parse from one pour in a bar. Different and worthy of more investigation, but didn’t immediately make me covet a bottle.
21.0
USD
per
Pour
Caledonia Bar
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I find Tomatin quite variable. A number of the std age statements are average but I've had stunning single cask releases, virgin oak Cu Bocan was also great.
@Richard-ModernDrinking - crap. That’s the one I have. Hopes have been dashed.
@LeeEvolved In which case, it was the 2018, as it was a newly bought bottle.
@Richard-ModernDrinking - the bottle in this listing (red and white paper label) is the 2011-2013 release. The 2018 is the more round bottle like they use for everything now, and it has a nice wooden, swing door display case now. I guess I could create a new listing for the 2018.... * for reference
@LeeEvolved Not sure - I’ll have to check next time I’m at the bar. To be fair, I wouldn’t be surprised if it benefited from a longer airing than I was able to give it. Hard to just sit at a bar for 30 minutes waiting for your whisky to breathe!
Was this from the 2018 release? I recently bought a bottle for around $230. I was hoping for a great VFM experience and sadly it doesn’t seem like that’s the case.
For a 30yr old, and $21/pour, seems like it falls way short of its peers in the price and age range