Tamdhu 8-year-old, Douglas Laing's Premier Barrel / 46% / 0.7l

Premier Barrel Selection from the Douglas Laing & Co. portfolio is one of the most impressively packaged whisky lines.

It is released in old-fashioned stoneware decanters, always accompanied by a short stanza referring to the specific whisky, expressed using alliteration. All whiskies in the Premier Barrel series are bottled at 46% abv, natural colour and unchill-filtered. Tamdhu 8 years old is a whisky aged in a hogshead cask, the contents of which translate into 386 bottles (or rather stoneware). Tamdhu Distillery, built in 1897, is based in Speyside. The distillery is owned by the private company Ian Macleod Distillers and produces around 3.7 million litres of distillate per year, using 90% of its capacity.

Aroma : fruity, barley malt, red apples, pears, grapes, honey, toffee, almond flakes, vanilla, notes of cinnamon and toasted oak.

Taste: true to the aroma, apples, cantaloupe plums, raisins, vanilla pudding, toffee, honey, black pepper, a bit of allspice and oak.

Finish: medium long, with notes of honey, toffee, orange peel, plums, kitchen spices and oak.