Tamnavulin Glenlivet 10 Year Old

Tamnavulin 10yo (80's miniature)

The last distillery on my list that begins with the letter ‘T’, appropriately enough also the youngest distillery build in Scotland from the T-class. Maybe Torabhaig, the newcomer from the magnificent Isle of Skye can change all that. With little to no news on this project’s progress, we can only guess when that will be. Now to the matter at hand,...

Score 77/100

Tamnavulin 21 Year Old 1989 A.D. Rattray

Tomnavoulin is a village in Speyside of which the name is Gaelic for ‘mill on the hill’. That is also where Tamnavulin Distillery got her name from. It is a very young distillery in fact, founded only in 1966 for the purpose of producing whisky for the renewed demand for blends. Mostly for Whyte & Mackay, but also for Crawfords and...

Score 84/100

Tamnavulin 20 Year Old 1992 Cadenhead’s

Tamnavulin… now that is a distillery that really does not appear on my radar often. This is only the twelfth dram I try from this Speysider. The name of the distillery, by the way, means ‘mill on the hill’, but I digress. I’m trying a malt that spent two decades on a wine cask from Chateau Lafitte – I think that should be Lafite-Rothschild (with...

Score 81/100

Tamnavulin Double Cask

Tamnavulin is still owned by Whyte & Mackay, but was only recently relaunched as a single malt. 2016, I believe. Before that, you hardly found any because the company focused on Isle of Jura and – to lesser extent – Fettercairn. One of the first new releases was this Double Cask which, as the name suggests, matured on two types of cask. First...

Score 78/100