Tamdhu Cigar Malt Cask #Batch 4

A distillery bottling of Tamdhu, drawn from cask Batch 4 and bottled at 53.8%. Tamdhu was opened in 1897 in Knockando, Speyside; it once ran the last Saladin box maltings in Scotland. Tamdhu ran the last Saladin box maltings in Scotland, the boxes still standing on site.

The spirit was made in copper stills and filled into sherry seasoned oak, for a fragrant, fruity spirit with weight for the cask. Sherry seasoned oak gave the dried fruit richness Tamdhu is known for. With no age statement, it shows a rich, sherried body and ripe dried fruit. Long ageing turns the orchard fruit towards fig, raisin and a warm spice. Water is drawn from the Tamdhu Spring on the Speyside site. The distillery was built on a spot once known for illicit distilling. A full, fruity spirit gives Tamdhu the weight to carry active sherry wood. 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.

At a hearty 53.8% it carries real weight. The Oloroso brings a fruity, sherried depth. The texture is rich and rounded, the fruit lifted by sherry. Fig, raisin and oak see out a long finish. This is a rich, sherried Speyside single malt.