Tamdhu 1989 21 Year Old Old Malt Cask #6956 Douglas Laing

Tamdhu 10 Year Old Cream Label bottled 1980s

This is an older bottling of a 10 Year Old Tamdhu, released in the 1980s for the Italian Cinzano. I put it head to head with the current version of the same whisky, recently revived by the current owner Ian McLeod. The nose is quite special. It is sweet, malty, with clear sherry influence, but it also shows a weird egde as if from a swimming pool....

Score 80/100

Tamdhu Batch Strength / Batch No 2

Tamdhu is another distillery that until now has evaded my rapier pen. This Speyside distillery was founded in 1896 and lies between Cardhu and Knockando. It's quite large with nine pine washbacks and three pairs of stills. After closing it in 2010, Edrington sold it to Ian Macleod Distillers (who just bought Rosebank) who revived the lagging brand...

Score 90/100

Tamdhu 23 Year Old 1988 Malts of Scotland

This is the second Tamdhu released by the German Malts of Scotland, after the 20 Year Old that was released last year. The name of the distillery, which was taken over from Edrington by Ian McLeod Distillers in July 2011 after it had been mothballed for six months, is Gaelic for Black Hill. As far as I know, she is not yet back in operation. The...

Score 85/100

Tamdhu 18 Year Old

This is a repackaged and re-launched 18yr Tamdhu, so ideally I would compare it to its predecessor, however this is the first Tamdhu I’ve tried so I can’t do that! And it’s described as a “Distillery Bottling” so it’s a bit special compared to its previous incarnation. This was a fairly random purchase from the Whisky Exchange website, and I am...

Score 79/100