Tamnavulin Glenlivet Bottled 1970's

Tamnavulin 12 Year Old

This Speysider – which is owned by Whyte & Mackay – was bottled in 2005 gebotteld and can still be found today, even though it is no longer being produced. There are not that many official bottlings of Tamnavulin, but independents bottle it often enough. Anyway, this is a veritable entry level malt. The nose is very easy, sweet and basically...

Score 78/100

Tamnavulin 1977 Inchedemmie Dew

I could not find a lot of information on this bottle. It would seem that a certain Mr Gray bottled this for his Inchedemmie Villa in Forres, near Elgin. I have no clue who Mr Gray was, but by the looks of it, I would venture this was bottled somewhere in the early 1990s. It smells fairly young on sweet malt, yellow apples, peach and dandelions....

Score 82/100

Tamnavulin 21Yr Old Signle Cask

I must admit I had never heard of Tamnavulin until around 6 months ago. Scotland has many distilleries and this is one of those that happily hides in plain sight. Started in 1966 this is a very efficient operation producing around 4 million litres of spirit each year. Very pale in colour, the palest 21 yr I can remember seeing. Bottled as an...

Score 87/100

Tamnavulin 25 Year Old 1991 WhiskyBroker

Boy, this is only my tenth Tamnavulin. Not really a distillery that appears on my radar often. That has everything to do with the fact that the standard range does not really inspire me. Obviously, the lion’s share disappears into the blends from Whyte & Mackay, Crawfords and Mackinlay’s, to name a few. I wonder if this independent bottling of...

Score 82/100