Tamdhu 14 Years Old 2007 Cask #HL 18753 (Edition Spirits)

A Tamdhu single malt, selected and bottled by Edition Spirits, aged 14 year old from 2007, drawn from cask HL 18753 and bottled at 59.9%. A release of 341 bottles. Set in Knockando, Speyside, Tamdhu has distilled since 1897. Mothballed in 2010, the distillery was revived by Ian Macleod, who relaunched the single malt in 2013.

The spirit was made in copper stills and filled into sherry seasoned oak, for a fragrant, fruity spirit with weight for the cask. A sherry butt held it, the wood lending raisin and walnut. Past a decade the fruit deepens into fig, raisin, nuts and a warm ginger spice. First fill Oloroso casks drive the rich, dried fruit character Tamdhu is known for. An in house cooperage was set up in 2019 to manage its sherry casks. Tamdhu sits among the great sherried Speysiders, a sister to Macallan in style. The Spey valley's cool air gives a slow, even maturation in the warehouses.

At a full 59.9% it is bold and fruity. The Oloroso brings raisin, orchard fruit and a warm spice. The texture is rich and rounded, the fruit lifted by sherry. A long, sherried finish carries a nutty depth. This is a dried fruit rich Speyside malt.