Name: Tomintoul 16-Year-Old
Color: Light copper
Nose: Malt, wood, vanilla cream, citrus, hazelnut
Taste: Malt, nuts, spices, root beer/peat
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Tomintoul 16-Year-Old is a single malt from Speyside region in Scotland. It is pronounced “Tom-in-t’owl” and means “Hillock of the Barn” and is named after a village of the same name in Moray. The distillery was founded in 1964 and is now partnered with Glenlivet and operates under the name the Tomintoul-Glenlivet Distillery.
The nose is a bit strange and took a few tries to figure out get a read on it. I mainly detected hazelnut and Christmas spices and the baseline of Glenlivet 12. It has a very good balance, medium body, and is very smooth. Bottled at 40% abv and aged 16 years, there is no statement of what barrels are used so I will assume ex-bourbon barrels.
Other expressions produced: 10, 12, 14, 16, 21, and 33-year-old.
This whiskey is very nice and would work well as a Fall or Winter dram. It tastes different than the Glenlivet 12, Glenlivet 14, and Glenlivet 15 but made a nice addition to my bar.
Priced around $60-70 and is worth a try.
If you like it, drink it! – Christopher
If you like it, drink it!
