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Tomintoul 35 Year Old 1966 Signatory

Brilliant

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@markjedi1Review by @markjedi1

19th Aug 2014

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This is an old bottling by Signatory of a lesser known Speysider. A Tomintoul 1966 on sherry cask (which is no surprise, Tomintoul is known to use mostly if not exclusively sherry casks). Only 128 bottles were filled and released in 2001. This is – most likely – going to be very good. The mahogany color on this baby…

Honeysweet nose on deep sherry with all you might expect from it: raisins, figs, dades, but also blood oranges and gooseberries. Baked apples in brown sugar. Hints of tobacco, cinnamon and saffron. The cask has clearly put its foot down.

Soft, round and smooth but full of flavor. Nicely spicy on pepper, nutmeg and cinnamon. The dark fruit return and starts off juicy to slowly become somewhat drying. Loads of oak towards the end, but certainly not oaky. This is brilliant and can easily hold its own next to the better Glenfarclas.

Pity that the finish is somewhat short. On oranges and some oak.

Grand Tomintoul and probably the best I have been allowed to try so far. Liquid history, always a bit of a feast. Thanks, Chris!

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