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| Hello, that is one in every of our (virtually) every day tastings. Santé! |
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January 4, 2022
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Tormore at random
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| Tormore at random as we generally like to do that, one by one and as they arrive out of the packing containers and off the cabinets, with none type of logic. For extra enjoyable. |
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Tormore 27 yo 1992/2020 (43.7%, Berry Bros. & Rudd for Kirsch Import, Odessa Black Wine cask, cask #101153) 
I might suppose the wine was a type of thickish Crimeans, Massandra-style. Or, sure, PX-style. Let’s examine if that is for the Czars amongst us… Color: between apricots and correct Scottish smoked salmon. Nostril: touches of cellar earth and saltpetre at first, whereas peonies and nectarines are quickly to leap to your nostrils. Peaches, raisins, prickly pears and cranberry juice, bruised bananas, crystallised cherries and liquorice allsorts, then candy tender mustard sauce, walnut wine, moist gingerbread, and only a wee contact of tar… Mouth: candy and really fruity, we’re virtually in gewurztraminer territory. Some cherry jam, extra cranberries, honeysuckle, a little bit banana liqueur… Would grow to be meady after a short time, with a little bit pine resin too. Cough syrup. End: medium, slightly wealthy however the citrus maintain it contemporary. Figs and muscat grapes, plus oranges within the aftertaste. Oranges will save the world. Feedback: a reasonably scary set-up that ended very effectively. I am actually happy with this one ans shall now examine what that Odessa Black Wine actually is. I do know I am turning this job inside out.
SGP:741 – 87 factors. |
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Tormore 22 yo 1995/2018 (46%, The Whisky Lodge, Orcines, hogshead, cask #20035) 
Color: gold. Nostril: first whiffs of wooden smoke, then an impeccable fruitiness (orchard fruits, plums and apples…) and what we name oriental pastries, that are all led by honey, orange blossom and rosewater. A giant fats honey cake straight from the oven and a few preserved mirabelles that will remind me of middle-aged Balvenie. Now, there are hardly 15 miles between Tormore and Dufftown, which is sort of a 7 hour drive. After all I am joking, that will slightly be twenty minutes. Mouth: actual good, candy, slightly wealthy and syrupy, stuffed with liqueurs, jams and syrups. I will point out mirabelles once more, quinces, and definitely figs. Superb and the 46% vol. work extraordinarily effectively. End: slightly lengthy, with a wee smokiness as soon as extra (botrytis?) and simply extra mirabelle jam. Extra citrus within the aftertaste. Feedback: some bottled sin that will have a tendency to leap into your throat should you’re not cautious. I discover this actually glorious.
SGP:641 – 88 factors. |
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Tormore 31 yo 1990/2021 (50.2%, Chapter 7, bourbon barrel, 239 bottles)
Color: gold. Nostril: sameish, splendidly fruity, western, maybe with a little bit extra pastry dough, contemporary brioche, in any other case certainly, mirabelles, quinces and orange blossom water. With water: vegetal oils, peanut oil, croissants… Mouth (neat): slightly elegant, and completely different this time. Contemporary damaged branches, white asparagus, sunflower oil, mirabelles, earl gray, marzipan, blancmange, bananas… Chic, actually elegant. It would not actually need any water, however since we’re right here and since our shares of Vittel have been replenished… With water: pure, beautiful, distinctive malty barleyness, and only a few gritty, leafier components. Inexperienced tea, unsweetened, and inexperienced bananas. End: maybe a notch much less ‘wow’ due to all this inexperienced tea, in any other case it will have made it to 90 in my wee e book. Feedback: this, I suppose, is the place blenders would have added a little bit oomph utilizing 15% youthful Tormore. However then you definately would have misplaced the stunning age assertion and would have needed to provide you with each a foolish identify and an unlikely story. An elf roaming the warehouses at evening, etcetera.
SGP:551 – 88 factors. |
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Tormore 31 yo 1990/2021 (53%, Whisky Spunge, 1st fill barrels, 422 bottles)
The Sponge’s, I imply the Spunge’s tackle retro labelling. What is going to future generations of whisky lovers suppose and imagine after they’ll see this as whiskysuperauctiondelamuerte.com? They’re going to say it is a pretend since they’ve written Spunge as an alternative of Sponge. Now if this awful web site remains to be up, they’re going to discover the reply. Color: gold. Nostril: it is a slightly breadier providing, whereas the core would have remained totally on orchard fruits, plums, apples… Brioche-y bread working the present. Brioche-y bread is ideal with foie gras when toasted. Then some mentholy lemons, which might simply elevate it, and maybe touches of candied turnips in olive oil and honey sauce. With water: gooseberries and greengages! Mouth (neat): richer, waxier than the earlier 1990, fatter as effectively. Beeswax, mead, Meursault and mirabelles. I agree there’s not a throwaway right here. With water: will get wilder, earthier, and waxier but. End: slightly lengthy. Extra rustic, fermentary, and with extra stewed apples. A contact of coconut within the aftertaste – there, down twenty factors. I am joking. Feedback: excellent. Cautious with water although, do not add a couple of or two drops or it could react bizarrely.
SGP:551 – 88 factors. |
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We’re slightly on a stroll, are we not? Let’s examine an OB…
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Tormore 16 yo (48%, OB, +/-2020)
There are batch numbers however I’ve missed that one this time. Final time I attempted the 16 that was a ‘2014’ and I actually appreciated it (WF 83) even when we have been removed from the indies we have simply tried. Color: gold. Nostril: very good, on patchouli, IPA, hops, tangerines and custard. There’s one thing ooh-ah right here, or as we might say in Mittelleuropa, one thing with fairly some hoppla. Think about, there are even mangos! Mouth: hey however that is glorious. Great syrupy tropical fruits, flowers (lime), honey, citrons, mangos certainly, and a sense of… each Bushmills and Redbreast. Is that ordinary? Is that me? End: lengthy, with at all times as many tropical fruits led by mangos. Juicyfruit. Feedback: proper, Tormore belongs to Pernod and so does Redbreast… There may be a plot there… But it surely’s an exquisite drop for certain, this newer batch of Tormore 16. Oh and do not Pernod personal mango fields? The plot thickens…
SGP:641 – 87 factors. |
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Tormore 28 yo 1992 (47.3%, Thompson Brothers, refill hogshead, 252 bottles, +/-2020) 
Love the label, it makes me consider Del Maguey’s mezcals. It is true that with world warming, they’re going to quickly develop magueys/agaves round Ballindalloch, in addition to in Dornoch for that matter. Color: gold. Nostril: that is purer, slightly all on peaches, bananas, mangos and honeys, however not in a wham-bam manner. Great however having mentioned that, it is bought an Irish facet as effectively. A little bit sandalwood and incense. Mouth: pure certainly, even when there is a saltiness rising right here, sardines stewed in mango and blood orange juice, pink grapefruits, small seashells (whelks and winkles)… This certain comes sudden, this a lot coastalness in a Tormore! Completely great cask. What was in there earlier than they crammed the Tormore, I do not know. It might be cool to know. End: medium, excellent. Salty citrus and maracuja, with some liquorice within the aftertaste. Feedback: we have discovered a 90, so our soul is tranquillo however our coronary heart remains to be keen… Wonderful drop, effectively completed Phil and Simon.
SGP:552 – 90 factors. |
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Tormore 32 yo 1988/2020 (47.1%, The Whisky Company, Hold Going, hogshead, 187 bottles)
Hold Going, is not {that a} very Johnnie-Walker form of motto? Color: gold. Nostril: as soon as you have bought these fab outdated Irish in your thoughts (Midleton, Bushmills) you are nearly useless as you simply could not get them out. Mangos honey patchouli earth prickly pears eucalyptus bidis Juicyfruit all-vitamin juice puréed ardour fruit and Kools. Mouth: the oldness feels a little bit extra, with a little bit extra pine-y oak, mint, heavy liquorice and mocha. Having mentioned that the very expressive fruits are nonetheless there as effectively, along with assorted honeys and fruity herbs. That woodruff that we’ll cherish perpetually till we be part of our buddies within the Whisky Walhalla. End: medium, however with an analogous saltiness as that within the beautiful Thompson’s. Which is intriguing… Feedback: liked the tobacco within the nostril. Kools, do they nonetheless make them?
SGP:661 – 88 factors. |
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Oh, we nonetheless had this older one from Cadenhead’s…
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Tormore 33 yo 1984/2017 (51.7%, Cadenhead, Genuine Assortment, bourbon, 132 bottles)
Color: gold. Nostril: a lot, a lot, and I imply a lot leafier than the others. Loads of chlorophyll, leaves, stems, grasses… effectively you see what I imply. A great deal of patchouli, apple peel, contemporary walnuts, melon pores and skin… That is completely not dangerous information, however water should put its acts collectively… With water: malt, bread, beer. I do know, would not sound too extravagant, however after 33 years, discovering bread in a malt whisky is like discovering water on Mars. Is there life on Mars? A God-awful small affair certainly (S., that final half was simply plain ridiculous). Mouth (neat): oh good, it’s now stuffed with fruits and herbs, citrus, mint, eucalyptus, liquorice, aniseed… What an exquisite arrival. Let’s examine what Vittel will do to it (Nestlé, the place’s that bloody Lamborghini?) With water: supplied you don’t add an excessive amount of H2O, you will be left with a really liquoricy and citrusy malt. Only one drop please, or… End: yeah it would not swim too effectively. Hold it neat. Mentholy, natural end. Feedback: the nostril was a little bit unsure however the palate was beautiful. Effectively, water slightly kills it (tannins popping out like gremlins from beneath your desk).
SGP:571 – 87 factors. |
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Tormore 27 yo 1988/2015 (50%, Golden Cask, cask #CM225, 226 bottles)
We all know they do not swim, so we cannot add any waters this time. A lot for viscometrical observations! I imply, viscimetrical ones. We be taught, that is evolution in movement, is it not. Color: white wine. Nostril: extra on peelings, herbs, grasses and leaves. Mouth: extra citrus, tart lemons, limoncello, manzana verde liqueur. End: lengthy, grassy and lemony. Very very zesty. Feedback: it is not a matter of water, this is a superb ultra-tart Tormore, it is simply that it will reduce you into halves should you’re not cautious sufficient. Massive acidity.
SGP:651 – 85 factors. |
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Good, a final one. Maybe one other Golden Cask…
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Tormore 26 yo 1988/2015 (53.3%, Golden Cask, cask #CM226, 278 bottles)
A sister cask, clearly, and extra lemons, I might presume… Please fasten your seatbelt… Color: gold. Nostril: he-he, no, that is rounder one, with extra honey and mangos, extra Irishness in a manner, a little bit extra beeswax as effectively, meadow flowers, tender custard, orange blossom… No, we mentioned no waterz. Mouth: I actually like this, it is bought this sauvignon-blanc-like form of spine, this beautiful uncompromising tartness, and but these luscious oranges and grapefruits, with even a little bit litchi ultimately of the top (of the top). End: lengthy and realty very grassy. Inexperienced peppers and lemon zests. Loads of pepper within the aftertaste, you’ll virtually imagine you have simply had the harshest chilli con carne in Chihuahua. No matter. Feedback: it went again to the tightest lemons, nevertheless it’s an outstanding juice for certain. I am certain you may make some billionaire’s margarita out of this.
SGP:661 – 87 factors. |
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Ten Tormores of excellent age and of top quality, that is what I might name a tasting session. Hugs.
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