Tobermory 12 Years Old 2008 Cask #16900191 (Duncan Taylor)

Single malt Tobermory, released by Duncan Taylor, a 12 year old from 2008, drawn from cask 16900191 and bottled at 54.6%. A release of 342 bottles. Tobermory is the unpeated single malt of Mull's only distillery, founded in 1798 in the island's painted harbour town. The distillery was founded in 1798 by John Sinclair, a local kelp merchant, as the Ledaig distillery.

The spirit was run through the distillery's boil ball stills, to build a nutty, waxy, fruity character. It was matured in ex-Bourbon oak, lending vanilla and honey. Around the mid teens the malt gains a fuller, waxier body. The unpeated make leans on the cask, the wood adding much of the colour and flavour. The distillery's history is broken by long silences; its buildings once stored a local cheddar. Burn Stewart revived production in 1993, and Distell bought the distillery in 2013. The stills carry boil bulbs and a kink in the lyne arms, which lifts the reflux.

Undiluted at 54.6%, it is powerful. A waxy, oily fruitiness, and the ex-Bourbon lends vanilla and a soft honey. Beneath it run orchard fruit, wax and a soft nut. It finishes fruity, oily and warming. This is the waxy, fruity malt of Mull.