Tamnavulin 1968 The Stillman's Dram

Tamnavulin 20 Year Old 1992 Cadenhead’s

Tamnavulin… now that is a distillery that really does not appear on my radar often. This is only the twelfth dram I try from this Speysider. The name of the distillery, by the way, means ‘mill on the hill’, but I digress. I’m trying a malt that spent two decades on a wine cask from Chateau Lafitte – I think that should be Lafite-Rothschild (with...

Score 81/100

Master of Malt Tamnavulin Single Cask 16 Year Old

Really nice, complex nose, despite the high alcohol content. Without water: bitter oak, tannins, bit of smoke, tiniest hint of brine. Very spicy, with a gradually building finish that peaks nicely then fades. Slightly disappointing after the tremendous nose. With water:much more soft vanilla in the nose. Tones down the bitterness of the burnt wood...

Score 78/100

Tamnavulin Single Malts of Scotland 21YO

Little seen. Little heard of but this is "the other 'vulin distillery". Normally the only bottles available are expensive relics of the 70s and 80s, but sometimes the UK's Whisky Exchange website gets in the odd indie bottle of it. And this is one such example. Single cask, non-chill filtered and colouring-free, (they didn't really need...

Score 88/100

Tamnavulin 12 Year Old

This Speysider – which is owned by Whyte & Mackay – was bottled in 2005 gebotteld and can still be found today, even though it is no longer being produced. There are not that many official bottlings of Tamnavulin, but independents bottle it often enough. Anyway, this is a veritable entry level malt. The nose is very easy, sweet and basically...

Score 78/100