Tormore 10 Year Old

Tormore 18 Year Old 1996 Gordon & Macphail Reserve

This spirit was distilled in 1996 behind the magnificent and classified facade of the Tormore distillery. Van Wees, a Dutch indie bottler, bought this cask at Gordon & Macphail. After slumbering for 18 years in a refill bourbon cask, it was cut to 46% and bottled. Succulent and honeysweet nose on toffee, vanilla and white orchard fruit. Sirop...

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

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 12 Year Old 1994 Gordon & Macphail CASK

CASK is a series from Gordon & Macphail. It contains single malt at – doh – cask strength. In this case a Tormore that was distilled on the 15th September 1994 and bottled on the 17th of May 2007, so a bit shy of 13 years. It matured on first fill sherry butts. Good nose! Loads of sherry in the guise of caramelized fruit, nuts, figs with a...

Score 87/100