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Tomatin 12 Year Old 2005 for Maltclan

Maltclan is a Belgian whisky club that organises a whiskyfestival around the new year. Obviously, a bottling is release then as well. This is one of those and an official one to boot. It’s a single cask of Tomatin that was put down in 2005 and bottled at cask strength. Judging by the color, this was a bourbon cask. The nose confirms the bourbon...

Score 83/100

Tomatin 9 Year Old 2011 Double-V

A new Belgian bottler has arrived on the scene and the name is Double-V – I presume the owners’ last names starting with the letter v has a lot to do with that. These pals seem to be crazy about cycling, cooking with a Green Egg and… whisky. In the last few years, they’ve invested in casks that they now plan to release bit by bit. Their Tomatin...

Score 84/100

Tomatin 1990 18 Year Old Cask #7738

This single cask, bourbon hogshead 7738, yielded only 160 bottles on 7th August 2008. I get vanilla, nuts, orange zest and licquorice on the nose, with quite a prickly. The nose continues into the mouth and is very spicy. The finish is feisty, but short. Very short, in fact. Tomatin gets it's bourbon casks from several US-producers, such as...

Score 81/100

Tomatin 7 Year Old 2007 Kintra

This young Tomatin matured on a sherry butt and was bottled at cask strength after 7 years by the independent bottler Kintra – you know: Erik Molenaar, the owner of the Wagging Finger distillery in Holland, famous for his gin of the same name. Apparently, Erik only got 142 bottles. If my info is correct, the remainder of the cask was distributed...

Score 84/100