Bottle Details
SMWS Code
11.56
Distillery
Tomatin
ABV
59.1%
Age
10 Years
Cask
Second-fill Charred American oak hogshead
Distilled
December 9, 2014
Region
Highland
Flavor Profile
Lightly Peated
Category
Scotch
The whisky presents an immediately bright and smoky character with a chiseled, bone-dry peat profile. A wonderful coastal edge brings persistent freshness, brittle smoke, bubblegum, aniseed distillate, and bath salts.
Neat, the palate is superbly clean, sharp, and pristinely peaty with a distinctive medicinal streak of bandages and ointments. With water, the whisky develops a waxier texture and farmier profile, revealing camphor, lanolin, pickling brine, malt vinegar, and a broader, richer peat character.
The finish maintains a sharp and salty balance, with notes of salted peanuts, seawater, grapefruit, and charred pineapple emerging with dilution.
We found this one immediately bright and smoky, with a chiseled, bone-dry peat profile. There was also a wonderful coastal edge that brought persistent freshness, brittle smoke, bubblegum, aniseed distillate and bath salts. We all really enjoyed this one! With water it maintained this sharp and salty balance, but added in notes of salted peanuts, seawater, grapefruit and charred pineapple. The neat palate was superbly clean, sharp and pristinely peaty, with a big streak of medicine in the form of bandages and ointments. With water it got surprisingly waxier in texture, along with a 'farmier' profile and a broader, richer peat flavour. We noted camphor, lanolin, pickling brine and malt vinegar.