Tullibardine 10 Year Old

Tullibardine 1976 SIngle Cask Edition #3160

For my twentieth encounter with Tullibardine I chose an official bottling from the Single Cask Edition. Hogshead #3160 yielded 227 bottles at cask strength. It was released in 2010 and is nowhere to be found anymore. While the label simply states ‘hogshead’, a second with your nose in the glass will tell you that this was most likely a sherry...

Score 87/100

Tullibardine Sovereign Bourbon Cask

Several months ago we tried the new finishes by Tullibardine: the 225 Sauterness, 288 Burgundy and 500 Sherry. It contained a finished version of their entry level malt which got the beautiful name Sovereign. Thanks to a sample from my friend Pat, I can now try said entry level malt. It matured solely on bourbon barrels. The nose is soft and...

Score 80/100

Tullibardine 22 Year Old 1993 Highland Laird

Tullibardine, along the A9 halfway between Stirling and Perth, is sometimes called the ugly duck among distilleries. It looks like building blocks without a pagoda. But that says little – actually nothing – about the quality of their spirit. This one was distilled in 1993 and bottled at cask strength in Bartel Rawlings International’s Highland...

Score 83/100

Tullibardine 7 Year Old 2007 Malts of Scotland

The previous Tullibardine that was bottled by Malts of Scotland was a whopping 34 year old, distilled in 1980. Today they launched a very young one, only 7 years old, distilled in 2007. The old one came from a sherry cask, this youngling matured on a bourbon cask. Holy shit, WTF!?! Excuse my French, but this nose is simply weird. But in a very...

Score 86/100