Tormore 15 Year Old

Tormore 15 Year Old

Owned by Pernod Ricard this expression is a 15 yr cask strength bottled by Chivas brothers. This is my first Tormore to date. Pale in the glass with good legs. Nose is sweet with caramel, fragrant with barley and vanilla. It is very appealing. The palate starts with warming spice, white pepper, barley with sweetness. Finish lingers and is a good...

Score 89/100

Tormore 1995/2013 Gordon&MacPhail for The Whisky Mercenary

Tormore is the obscure distillery that marks the beginning of an era, namely the 60’s, when rapid expansion and modernisation destroyed much of the traditional whisky heritage while sawing the seeds of the impending doom of the 80’s. But unlike her contemporaries this distillery was no moloch of concrete and corrugated iron. Architecturally wise...

Score 86/100

Tormore 21 Year Old 1990 Mackillop’s Choice

We can safely call this bottling of Mackillop's Choice an oldie, because it was distilled in 1990 and bottled for almost ten years. It's a Tormore, a house that hasn't appeared on my radar that often. Oh, yummy! A nose full of vanilla custard and eggnog (you know, the thick liquid liqueur). Some nuts and chestnuts, wood glue (which reminds me of...

Score 85/100

Tormore 16 Year Old

This is only my 7th Tormore. It is the new release in the brand new packaging and matured for 16 years on American oak. The nose bursts with vanilla cookies, chocolate, all kinds of nuts and loads of butterscotch. I am reminded of the Café Noir cookies, actually. Hints of chocolate, gooseberries and apricots. This is rather good. It is quite light...

Score 85/100