Tamdhu 1973/2008 (56.0%, Gordon & MacPhail ‘Reserve’, cask #3230, 1st fill sherry butt, 481 bottles) 
We poured this one for this 12 months’s Whisky Present Outdated & Uncommon sherries whiskies tasting – it was successful! Color: orangey amber. Nostril: yup! Quinces, chocolate caramel sauce, hessian material, kirsch and all the standard suspects: figs, sultanas, tobacco and many others… there’s additionally a fairly elegant honeyed aspect together with some aged balsamic. With water: a lot leafier and mulchier, on gingerbread, tobacco leaf, turmeric, cloves and date molasses. Excellent, wealthy, previous fashion sherry! Mouth: great focus of sticky darkish fruits, wormwood, natural tonic wines, unique fruit teas and crystallised citrus peels. Very good resinous profile and thickness on the palate. With water: broader and extra advanced. Additionally somewhat drier and fairly a bit spicier now with black pepper, cinnamon, mustard powder and dried herbs. Some mentholated qualities rising too. End: lengthy, elegantly spicy, bitter natural vibes, teas and extra issues like balsamic and rancio notes. Feedback: a superb old-fashioned sherry cask and prime class Tamdhu distillate. You simply have to take pleasure in this fairly spicy profile – which I definitely do.
SGP: 562 – 91 factors.
