Tamnavulin 1977 30 Year Old Cask #3947 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

Tamnavulin 28 Year Old 1988 A.D. Rattray

For my thirteenth encounter with this distillery, I selected a 28 years old Tamnavulin that was distilled in 1988 and bottled at cask strength in 2016 by A.D. Rattray. It’s not easy to find official Tamnavulin. It’s a young workhorse (only founded in 1966) for the blenders, mostly White & Mackay. They own the distillery, by the way. The nose...

Score 79/100

Tamnavulin Double Cask

Tamnavulin is still owned by Whyte & Mackay, but was only recently relaunched as a single malt. 2016, I believe. Before that, you hardly found any because the company focused on Isle of Jura and – to lesser extent – Fettercairn. One of the first new releases was this Double Cask which, as the name suggests, matured on two types of cask. First...

Score 78/100

Tamnavulin 40 Year Old 1968 Carn Mor

I tried this Tamnavulin at the end of last year in Ghent and found it quite excellent. So I am very happy to have been able to score a sample to retry it in the quiet of my tasting room. After 40 long years of maturation it still has an ABV of 40,6%. Soft, round and honeysweet nose. Quince, marzipan, vanilla, oranges. The vanilla becomes louder...

Score 88/100

Tamnavulin 20 Year Old 1992 Cadenhead’s

Tamnavulin… now that is a distillery that really does not appear on my radar often. This is only the twelfth dram I try from this Speysider. The name of the distillery, by the way, means ‘mill on the hill’, but I digress. I’m trying a malt that spent two decades on a wine cask from Chateau Lafitte – I think that should be Lafite-Rothschild (with...

Score 81/100