Tamdhu 1977 29 Year Old Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

Tamdhu 40 Year Old 1971 The MacPhail’s Collection

The MacPhail's Collection is, as you can no doubt guess, a label of independent bottler Gordon & Macphail. One of the bottlings in that excellent series is this Tamdhu from 1971. Mind you, this was bottled more than a decade ago. I recently received a visit from Joren Nuyts – the strong man behind the new Belgian label The Roots – who gave me...

Score 87/100

Tamdhu

I picked up a 50ml sample bottle of Tamdhu (no age statement) at a local shop, having never heard of this whisky before. At the time, I had no knowledge of the distillery, or what kind of flavor profile it had. I have since learned it is a Speyside distillery, and is known as the only distillery to malt its own barley on premise, and it is the...

Score 60/100

Tamdhu 13 Year Old 1990 Dun Bheagan Sherry Finish

Dun Bheagan is a series of malts marketed by Ian MacLeod. Today I will try a Tamdhu, incidentally a distillery currently owned by this bottler. This 13 Year Old got a finish on sherry casks, was distilled in 1990 and bottled in 2003. I am putting it head to head with a 15 Year Old, also from 1990, but finished on port casks. The nose is sweet on...

Score 78/100

Tamdhu 7 Year Old 2008 for MMM

Several weeks ago, MMM launched its inaugural release in the Animals Series. It was The Ape, a powerful Craigellachie 2008. For this second release, we chose The Tiger, a young but very accessible Tamdhu, matured on a bourbon cask. It was distilled in January 2008 and bottled in May of last year at drinking strength. The nose is candy-like with...

Score 82/100