For my twentieth encounter with Tullibardine I chose an official bottling from the Single Cask Edition. Hogshead #3160 yielded 227 bottles at cask strength. It was released in 2010 and is nowhere to be…

WhiskyBroker is one of the few independent bottlers that keeps offering fairly old casks at attractive prices. This Tullibardine 1986 is more than a quarter century old and was released in 2015 for less…

Tullibardine, along the A9 halfway between Stirling and Perth, is sometimes called the ugly duck among distilleries. It looks like building blocks without a pagoda. But that says little – actually not…

The Tomintoul distillery is quite young. It was only founded in 1965. So in 2015 she celebrated her 50th birthday. This Five Decades was bottled to celebrate that milestone. And like the name suggests…

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…

I could not find a lot of information on this bottle. It would seem that a certain Mr Gray bottled this for his Inchedemmie Villa in Forres, near Elgin. I have no clue who Mr Gray was, but by the looks…

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…

This single cask was bottled especially for Premium Spirits, the Belgian importer of Tomatin. This Tomatin was put to sleep on a bourbon cask in 2002, but got a finish on a red wine cask before being…

The Tomatin Legacy – which is a NAS release – refers to the important historical contribution that the distillery did for the town of the same name. It was the founding of the distillery that put the…

CASK is a series from Gordon & Macphail in which they bottle single casks at cask strength. I know, this is logical. This is, however, quite a young Tomatin. It matured on first fill bourbon casks for…