Tomatin 18 Year Old

The reviewed bottle of Tomatin 18 yo is owned by @Maddie, has been open for 3 years, and is 95% full. Tomatin 18 yo was finished in Oloroso sherry butts

Nose: fragrant high-pitched grapey-cum-flowery sherry is what greets you first with this one. The barley-malt is there when you look for it, but the wood is pretty slight and understated. Nice quality of the wine flavours with a nice integration of the wine flavours with the barley. Sweet-dry balance is good, and inclines toward the dry side. Score: 22/25

Taste: this is pretty grapey in the mouth, more so than I was expecting. The sherry dominates the delivery and the close. In the mouth this Oloroso comes across as very dry and astringent. Sweet balance is lacking. The barley flavours and the wood flavours are nowhere to be found. Score: 21/25

Finish: stays long and strong while the wine flavours slowly fade out. Score: 21/25

Balance: very good in the nose; good thereafter. Score: 21/25

Water added: 1) gives some very welcome sweetness to the nose, and 2) bundled and lowered the pitch of the grape flavours in the mouth. I prefer this nose with water added. For the palate, it's a toss-up as to which to like better

Total Sequential Score: 85 points

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Strength: very good strength of flavours throughout. Score: 22/25

Quality: good to very good quality of all of the flavours, but wine is almost totally what you taste. Score: 22/25

Variety: not much. Score: 19/25

Harmony: good to very good harmony. Score: 21.5/25

Total Non-Sequential Score: 84.5 points

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Comment: Dry Oloroso Sherry, that's all there is. It's pretty good, but nothing to get too excited about. Very nice nose, though

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