Tormore 20 Year Old 1992 Berry Bros & Rudd

SMWS 105.14 - A sweet song with deeper resonances

The Tormore distillery was the first Scottish distillery to be built in the 20th century (in 1958-1960), and sounds like one of the more intriguing distilleries to visit - some Googling tells me it has a clock that plays scottish tunes every quarter hour, hedges shaped like stills, and cute workers' cottages nearby. Alas, the plan for a...

Score 90/100

Tormore 27 Year Old 1988 North Star Spirits

Tormore is a young, but beautiful distillery. It was founded in 1958 by Long John Distillers. We are trying one of the new releases from North Star Spirits: a Tormore 27 year Old 1988 that was finished on a Madeira cask. Madeire is actually the Portugese word for wood. It is a fortified wine that can be kept for a long time, produced on the island...

Score 85/100

Tormore 20 Year Old 1995 Lads of Lobland

The whisky series Monarchy of the Lads – with great labels, it must be said – currently consists of a great Clynelish 1997, the outstanding Springbank 1996, this Tormore 1995 and the recently launched Glenlossie 1992 (which I will try right after this one). Tormore is a picturesque distillery – and a classified building by the way – built in 1958...

Score 86/100

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