Tamdhu 1984 27 Year Old Cask #2840 Adelphi

Tamdhu 10 Year Old

Tamdhu comes from Gaelic for “little dark hill”. This distillery was founded in 1897 and has been mothballed 3 times since. Located in the town of Knockano it is a distillery which finds most of its whisky used in blends such as Grouse and Cutty Sark. Since the relaunch in 2011 it has really pushed on and this culminated with it being nominated as...

Score 81/100

Tamdhu 26 Year Old Exclusive Malts CWC

The Creative Whisky Company, run by David Stirk, bottled this 26 Year Odl Tamdhu for the whiskywhiskywhisky-forum, run by the sympathetic Mark Connely who opened his own shop, the Good Spirits Company, in Glasgow recently and who also organises a whisky festival. I guess it was only a matter of time before he released his own bottling. The nose is...

Score 84/100

Tamdhu

I tried two current bottlings and one old bottling of Tamdhu this week. First up was the ‘no age statement’ standard bottle of Tamdhu, the recently closed distillery. The fresh nose reveals the malt immediately, followed by cereals and honey with a touch of smoke. It also has something sour and something that reminds me of a rubber garden hose… It...

Score 72/100

Tamdhu 10 Year Old

Since Ian MacLeod took over the distillery, the Tamdhu range has been overhauled with a completely new, rather retro look. The entry level malt is this Tamdhu 10 Year Old, matured on sherry casks. I put it head to head with an older bottling, released in its day for the Italian Cinzano. The nose is soft and round on all kinds of sherry influences....

Score 81/100