Three fast Tomatin

Tomatin 1999/2013 (57.6%, OB for Royal Mile Whiskies,  Hungarian Oak end, 302 bottles)
Color: pale amber. Nostril: barely spiritous, sawn rosewood, treacle, bitter orange marmalade after which wee notes of kumquat and tangerine. Will get somewhat extra playfully fruity and spicy with cloves and cinnamon with a while in glass. With water: dates, plums and a common sense of ‘sticky’ fruitiness, some blood orange marmalade impressions too. Works properly with water. Mouth: sticky darkish fruits, somewhat sharp oak spiciness and likewise some greener notes of pepper and snapped twig. Nevertheless, the fruitiness stays properly juicy and simply the suitable aspect of jammy. With water: develops some fascinating teaish and beery notes. Shilling ales, jasmine tea, hibiscus, tea tree oil and one thing somewhat leathery. The oak feels somewhat too dominant now for me. End: medium in size, fairly spicy and nonetheless with this darkish, sticky and jammy fruit feeling. Feedback: many engaging qualities, you simply have to love them on the spicier / oakier aspect.
SGP: 551 – 84 factors.

Tomatin 36 yo ‘Batch 10’ (46.2%, OB, 2022, 1200 bottles)
As with most of those releases, it is a mixture of bourbon and sherry casks. Color: deep gold. Nostril: classically and lusciously stuffed with Tomatin fruits. Inexperienced and orchard fruits with overripe yellow fruits and likewise wee unique parts too. Will get increasingly unique and generously lush with time – nearly to the purpose of being fairly estery and pineapple pushed. Blind you may very properly say a 1976 Tomatin. Mouth: similar story! Ample inexperienced apples, gooseberry and melon, additionally yellow plums, fruit pastilles and lots of recent and dried unique fruits. Particularly fairly a little bit of papaya and mango. End: medium however nonetheless fairly overtly on fruits, a sense of gelatinous texture and ‘gloopiness’ about that fruitiness as properly. Feedback: in some methods it is a quite simple and at occasions barely mild profile, however the sheer power of its fruitiness is simply completely beautiful and vastly pleasurable. Extremely beneficial!
SGP: 741 – 90 factors.

Tomatin 36 yo ‘Batch 5’ (46.8%, OB, 2019, 800 bottles)
Color: gold. Nostril: I’d say this one is just not as wham bam unique as batch 10, fairly extra on overripe inexperienced and yellow fruits with a properly pulpy ‘fruit salad goo’ vibe about it. Add to that some honey, wooden resins and possibly somewhat camphory aspect too. Nonetheless extraordinarily charming and impressively recent on the nostril. Palate: richer, oilier and waxier than batch 10 I’d say, going extra in direction of polish, outdated furnishings, lanolin and tender waxes with once more this sense over fleshy, overripe fruits lurking in there. Some well-extracted unique fruit teas and issues like aged citrus rinds. Beautiful and paying homage to some fairly extra old style bottlings from yesteryear. End: medium, barely tangy fruitiness, wooden saps, mineral oil, sandalwood and crystallised inexperienced and unique fruits. Feedback: beautiful and actually very charming, however I feel I want the juiciness of batch 10 by a single notch. That is nonetheless a superb composition although.
SGP: 651 – 89 factors.