Tomintoul 43 Year Old 1967 The Nectar of the Daily Drams

I am putting another 43 Year Old next to the A.D. Rattray bottling from 1967. This one was bottled by The Nectar of the Daily Drams in 2011. The cask was selected by the Belgian owner Mario Groteklaes.

The nose is quite different. Very expessive and more fruity. Oranges and grapefruit jump out, sprinkled with brown sugar. Add some roasted almonds in the mix and a pinch of cloves. Could this be a sherry cask?

It has a good body. A lot of citrus (oranges and grapefruit again), cloves return and some Mandarine Napoléon (a Belgian mandarin liqueur). Somewhat waxy and bitter. Very spicy, mind you.

The finish, spicy with orange zest, is wonderfully long.

Wow, this is by far the best Tomintoul I have tasted to date. The bottle is not cheap (around 160 EUR), but then again, this whisky is over four decades old.

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