Tobermory 12 Years Old 2006 Cask #900151 (Signatory)

A Tobermory single malt, picked by Signatory Vintage, a 12 year old from 2006, drawn from cask 900151 and bottled at 49.9%. A release of 784 bottles. Tobermory is the unpeated single malt of Mull's only distillery, founded in 1798 in the island's painted harbour town. The distillery makes two malts: the unpeated Tobermory and the peated Ledaig.

It was made in the high reflux stills from unpeated barley, for a fruity, waxy make with a green lift. Maturation in sherry laid dried fruit over the fruit. By this age the oily spirit rounds into nutty fruit and a waxy depth. Sherry wood suits the oily make, lending dried fruit and a nutty depth. A rare, more heavily peated make has appeared under the name Iona, after a neighbouring isle. In dry summers the distillery has paused when its hill loch ran low. The distillery sits at the head of the bay, beneath a steep wooded hill.

At a full 49.9% it is intense and layered. Pear, oily malt and a green note, and the Oloroso brings dried fruit, fig and a nutty depth. Soft orchard fruit and wax sit behind the cask. The close is long, fruit over a soft oak. This is the fruity side of the Isle of Mull's distillery.