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| Hello, that is one in all our (nearly) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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Mars 8, 2022
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The Tamdhu Works
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One other title that we have been accumulating during the last months, time to down a couple of Tamdhus. We’ll try this with a lot pleasure by the best way, as we have already discovered some marvellous fruity ones previously.
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Tamdhu 10 yo (40%, OB, +/-2020) 
Again on the tasting desk, since we had favored an earlier batch reasonably loads (circa 2015, WF 86 but it surely was a 43% model). Color: gold. Nostril: this pretty maltiness mingling with pastries of every kind and all origins, popcorn and nougat, honey cake, mead, butterscotch, some lighter pipe tobacco, then whiffs of manzanilla straight from Sanlucar. No must let you know that this ticks all packing containers in my little guide, however let’s hope it will not crumble on the palate due to the low power. Mouth: it doesn’t. Wonderful maltiness as soon as once more, walnut cake, oranges, earl gray, bergamotes certainly (these pretty sq. sweets they make from bergamots in Nancy, France), a couple of raisins, Linzer and panettone… Bravo! End: not that lengthy however completely balanced, nonetheless malty and cakey. Feedback: one of many uncommon events the place 40% ABV labored out. Superb BFYB tipple, for my part.
SGP:551 – 86 factors. |
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Tamdhu 12 yo (43%, OB, +/-2021) 
We have a number of earlier batches of the 12 however I feel we’ll preserve these for home makes use of. Color: gold. Nostril: It is changing into a bit of harder after the fantastic, and definitely brighter and brisker 10. This 12 has bought reasonably extra bitter woods in addition to doughy and grassy sherry, now these dried and candied apples do work properly. There’s additionally a big bag of Jaffa desserts, orange blossom cookies, and a bit of ginger beer. Maybe even a drop of Buckfast. Mouth: nearer to the ten, which is nice information. Extra spiced-up mead, gingerbread, cinnamon rolls, outdated man’s jam (confiture du vieux garçon) and simply raisins. End: medium, with extra gingerbread and a bit of muscovado sugar. Cinnamon toffee within the aftertaste – however does cinnamon toffee exist? Feedback: excellent – it stored bettering within the glass – however I ought to have had the ten after the 12.
SGP:551 – 84 factors. |
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Tamdhu 15 yo ‘Restricted Launch’ (46%, OB, +/-2019)
The outdated 15s from the Nineteen Eighties of their flat ‘armagnac-like’ bottles have been fantastic whiskies (WF 90 like). Color: full gold. Nostril: reasonably in the direction of the ten. Beautiful desserts and honeys of every kind plus a bit of shoe polish this time, engine grease, then orange essence, fino, tight honey, oloroso, fruitcake, Stolle, pumpernickel, raisin bread, prunes in armagnac (we favor armagnac with prunes)… Mouth: no surprise the distillery used to belong to the makers of Macallan, as a result of I discover this near fashionable sherried Macallan. Some butterscotch and a good oakiness, raisins, fruitcake, demerara sugar, tobacco, almonds and amaretti, maraschino whereas we’re in Italy, a spicier marmalade, peppers, some cinammony figs… Actually a tighter sherried malt. End: lengthy and spicier but. Bitter almonds, Swiss Läckerli and cinnamon mints. Feedback: a wee tad cask-forward however wonderful for certain. They need to preserve these batches in concrete eggs for a couple of years earlier than releasing them, however I am unsure the SWA would approve.
SGP:561 – 86 factors. |
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Tamdhu ‘Batch Power – Batch 002’ (58.5%, OB, +/-2016)
We’re late, we have solely ever tried Batch 1. I imagine nobody’s ever totally understood what ‘a batch power’ was. Color: full gold. Nostril: shock-full of Hershey’s chocolate, then tea and all-spice. That is all what I am getting at this ‘batch power’. With water: oak, sawdust, extra large-batch chocolate, tapioca after which cardamom. Mouth (neat): a leafy sherry, with bitter berries, inexperienced walnuts and a number of kirschwasser. That is all what I am getting at this ‘batch power’. With water: improves loads, even when they oak is staying within the entrance. Honey, olive oil, beeswax and walnut cake. End: lengthy, geared in the direction of marmalade and white pepper, with extra gingerbread within the aftertaste. Feedback: modern-style, actually excellent, however maybe a tad easy after the beautiful 10-12-15.
SGP:541 – 82 factors. |
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Tamdhu ‘Batch Power – Batch 003’ (58.3%, OB, +/-2018)
Color: gold. Nostril: sameish, maybe a tad sourer however at all times very a lot on chocolate, mocha and raisins. With water: the oak coming additional ahead. Chocolate and some leaves. Mouth (neat): extraordinarily fashionable, as if that they had STRised some sherry hogsheads. Tea, butterscotch, cherry cake, and simply tons and tons of milk chocolate. With water: some spicy marmalade, touches of mustard, some bitterness. Bitter apples and pears, even a bit of chilli. Pad Thai. End: extra chocolaty oak and all of the spices that will include it. Feedback: I simply could not inform about my favorite. Maybe batch #1.
SGP:551 – 82 factors. |
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Because it seems, there isn’t any batch #004 at Château WF, which is a scandal.
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Tamdhu ‘Batch Power – Batch 005’ (59.8%, OB, +/-2020)
Color: gold. Nostril: extra bourbon-type goodness (I do know it is sherry), extra vanilla, extra Werther’s Originals, extra pecans and macadamia nuts, praline, toffee and fudge, marzipan, cappuccino, a bit of cognac maybe… With water: some leafy sherriness arising. Baked apples, contemporary cinnamon rolls, bitter cherries, walnuts… Mouth (neat): again to a tighter, sourer fashion of sherry, with leaves and inexperienced spices, bell pepper, walnuts… Now there’s additionally a lot, a lot much less chocolate than within the earlier batches. With water: how humorous, it is getting fruitier right here, brisker, much less oak-driven, extra on apple pie and marmalade. End: lengthy, properly balanced between the marmalade and a few natural teas. Feedback: nostril neat, sip decreased.
SGP:551 – 84 factors. |
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Maybe a final official earlier than we begin to sort out the indie expressions? Or ought to we reasonably do the latter tomorrow?
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Tamdhu 12 yo ‘one hundred and twentieth Anniversary’ (57.6%, OB, Taiwan unique, oloroso sherry, 3600 bottles, 2018)
Was this one actually unique to Taiwan? Did Tamdhu have a good time their one hundred and twentieth anniversary solely in Taiwan? Color: amber. Nostril: similar fashionable fashion, stuffed with cedarwood, pencil shavings, chocolate and macchiato. With water: you can not not ponder whether they have not been benchmarking fashionable Glendronach. It is loaded with chocolate, then mulberries and… bramble jam certainly? Mouth (neat): very popular, chocolaty, extractive and spicy. I can see why our pricey associates in Taiwan would have chosen this, it might make for a fantastic sauce for dumplings (which we simply a-do-re). Ha. With water: nonetheless thick, closely chocolaty, going in the direction of armagnac this time. Besides that no armagnac would ever shelter this a lot cedarwood – and chocolate. End: lengthy, extraordinarily chocolaty. Absent minded drinkers will imagine they’ve simply had some sizzling chocolate by Van Houten. Feedback: wonderful, just a bit monolithic, I might say.
SGP:551 – 84 factors. |
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Wait wait wait, we simply discovered Batch Power #004!
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Tamdhu ‘Batch Power – Batch 004’ (57.8%, OB, 2019)
Extra sherry goodness. What these good Tamdhus do not fairly have is the meatiness, or say the umaminess that a couple of different sherry monsters would show. Color: deep gold. Nostril: similar to #005, this one would begin a tad bourbony, with some shortbread, caramel, butterscotch and molasses/corn syrup. A bit varnish and notes of raspberry jelly. With water: no adjustments. Is my reliable Vittel damaged? Mouth (neat): I discover this good. Good jams, some tropicalness (bananas flambéed and a bit of maracuja), the standard espresso and a few citrus. Works properly, with a lot much less chocolate (a.okay.a. oak) in the best way. With water: good gingerbread, marmalade, mead, maraschino, a bit of PX, a bit of icing sugar right here and there, syrups, fig wine… End: reasonably lengthy, curiously oriental. Extra fig wine, arrack… Feedback: most likely my favorite batch. Nonetheless not the subtlest instrument within the shed, however I do discover it extra complicated than the others.
SGP:551 – 85 factors. |
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That was a bit of exhausting, I imagine we’ll have the indie Tamdhus tomorrow. Thanks and auf Wiedersehen.
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