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Tomatin Legacy
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed
December 8, 2020 (edited December 16, 2020)
(Vita Dulcis Advent Calendar 8/24)
Nose: nice and somehow familiar, great mix of perfume, dry spices and thick ripe orchard fruits, really balanced, then it becomes creamy fudge vanilla pudding with very sweet raspberry sauce, great nose really, (is that a little peat in there?)
Palate: light but refined and on point, again nicely balanced and quite spicy almost savory with a rock candy sweetness and sweet pumpkin
Finish: interesting and quite enjoyable, gets even more exiting shortly after and remains quite long with nice spices and wood
Verdict: I really liked that one and was really surprised (when I revealed the label of this again blindly tasted sample) that it is a Tomatin, what nice surprise really - I will have to check out this distillery further, because I have only had a few Tomatin yet that I was fond of
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@CKarmios well honestly at this stage it was / is easy to like a whisky like that because the other samples from the advent calendar are just so mediocre or worse. So I’m not sure if it just was so enjoyable in comparison of the other very underwhelming ones.
@cascode I remember trying the Tomatin 12 and not being particularly impressed by it - a good nose but not so much the palate. Good price though. Perhaps Legacy deserves a second chance. Good notes.
Thanks for the summary - it's a distillery that I've also not been that impressed by so far, although many other seem to like their whiskies a lot. Might have to look into this one. Cheers.