Tamdhu 10 Year Old 1994 Provenance Douglas Laing

Tamdhu 10 Year Old Cream Label bottled 1980s

This is an older bottling of a 10 Year Old Tamdhu, released in the 1980s for the Italian Cinzano. I put it head to head with the current version of the same whisky, recently revived by the current owner Ian McLeod. The nose is quite special. It is sweet, malty, with clear sherry influence, but it also shows a weird egde as if from a swimming pool....

Score 80/100

Tamdhu 11 Year Old 2002 Malts of Scotland

This Tamdhu got a wonderful color from the sherry cask. The distillery was revived several years ago by Ian McLeod, but this is a distillate from the previous owners, the Edrington Group, because it was distilled in 2002. Tamdhu is Gaelic for black hill, by the way. This is not the first Tamdhu bottled by Malts of Scotland, but it is one of the...

Score 86/100

Tamdhu 18 Year Old

Tamdhu recently closed doors. Edrington Group blames the bad economic situation. It used to deliver a part of The Famous Grouse, Dunhill (currently popular in the US), J&B and Cutty Sark. Single malts from this Speysider are few and far between. This is their most recent bottling. The nose is flowery and spicy with a whiff of smoke. I get some...

Score 75/100

Tamdhu 10 Year Old

According to internet sources, Tamdhu Distillery closed down in 2010. It was sold to Ian Macleod Distillers in June 2011 who plans to “vitalize its production of single malt.” There are no reviews for the 10-year expression of Tamdhu, but judging by other reviews on the internet, the 10-year-old is the continuation of the no-age-statement whiskey,...

Score 72/100